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

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verj TIL David Hayter, voice for solid snake in metal gear solid series, wrote the screenplay for the X-Men and X-Men 2 films.
QNrpL TIL that there are 2,797 stars on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame".
YpEGA TIL when Southwest Airlines tried to change their motto to “Just Plane Smart” in the 1990s, they found out a much smaller company was already using it. To settle the issue, the CEOs of each company engaged in an arm wrestling match and the smaller company, Steven’s Aviation, ended up winning.
4QNw TIL that the saxophone was invented only in 1846 by Adolphe Sax. As a child, he survived a three-story fall, a gunpowder explosion, drinking a bowl of sulfuric water, a near-poisoning due to furniture varnish, and falling into a speeding river. His neighbors called him “little Sax, the ghost.”
D1aGJ TIL in the 1950s and 60s Canada spent ‘thousands and thousands’ making a ‘gaydar’ to detect homosexual government employees