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

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e0YQ5 TIL in 1974, drinkers in a British pub were bemoaning the fact that the UK didn't produce world champions, so they invented a sport that no one else knew about: toe wrestling. In 1976, a Canadian visitor competed and won, so with the point of the sport gone, the "World Championship" was discontinued
wLbpJ TIL I learned there’s a freshwater lake on a golf course in Australia with bullsharks. The sharks came to the lake due to a flood and aren’t able to go to the ocean after the flood receded. They have since breeded in the lake.
R7B7a TIL There is only one VC winner from WWII still alive and he is 100
6NxZ TIL DirectX’s original name was ‘The Manhattan Project’ because it was Microsoft’s initiative to destroy Japanese dominance of the gaming industry.
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