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TIL those giant cylinder towers at nuclear power plants are for cooling water.

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gMyJW TIL of Huo Tuo, a surgeon who invented general anesthesia in 100-200 AD. After being sentenced to death for refusing to exclusively treat a king, his scrolls were burned when a guard refused to preserve them. Soon after, the king's son died of illness and the king said he wished he never killed Tuo.
4R7b TIL: Wealthy Chinese couples use American women to give birth to… fully Chinese babies
WAo TIL hurricanes in Australia were originally named after local politicians a weather man didn’t like.
O0n6 TIL British Members of Parliament are not allowed to resign, so they have to be appointed to a fictitious job “Steward of Northstead” which disqualifies them from being an MP
9YJam TIL of the nocturnal eastern quoll, a cat-sized marsupial once extinct in Australia then re-introduced from Tasmania. Quolls are related to Tasmanian devils; both are carnivorous marsupials, and quolls have been known to snatch food from Tasmanian devils.