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TIL a study found that the costs of switching to clean energy from fossil fuels would be more than offset by the savings in reduced premature deaths from reduced air pollution

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E1a6p TIL Egyptian Mohammed M. Atalla is acknowledged as the inventor of the MOSFET, the most widely manufactured device in history, and one of the most important inventions in electronics.
0wPQj TIL that Boston Corbett, who was responsible for shooting, killing John Wilkes Booth in a standoff, was so religious that he castrated himself after a brief encounter w/ two prostitutes in Boston
X0kxP TIL if you cut down a cactus in Arizona, you can go to prison for 25 years. This is similar to cutting down rare trees.
N7WpQ TIL that Al-Qaeda were surprised by the collapse of the Twin Towers. Among those planning the attacks, Osama Bin Laden had been the most "optimistic", due to his experience in engineering, and had predicted that the fire would collapse the area where the planes hit and all the floors above only
KYVjE TIL Leslie Nielsen carried a fart machine everywhere including restaurants, on talk shows as a guest, press interviews, and even on movie sets his entire movie career. It predates his first comedic role in Airplane.