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TIL that the largest Uranium deposit on the United States is located near Danville Virginia. However there is a ban on mining it because of groundwater contamination concerns.

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4XJva TIL the iconic picture of Earth coined, 'The Blue Marble", was the first picture that viewed the entire planet as a whole and was only possible due to the sun being behind the Apollo 17 crew. Originally, the image was South up with Antarctica on top, but NASA flipped it to be more recognizable.
jNlMR TIL Mark Twain made a substantial amount of money throughout his career but lost most of it. He lost the equivalent of $9,000,000 on a typesetting machine investment, his publishing company failed after selling only 200 copies of one of his books, & he was forced to sell his house in Connecticut.
REN4 TIL the United States of America has a mystery that one writer calls “the biggest animal cold case in the nation’s history”: cattle/animal mutilations. In Kansas, for example, cattle were found with “ears, tongues, genitals and udders all neatly removed. Often, the scene was bloodless and trackless”
yVWmw TIL that three of Jonas Savimbi's children sued Activision for the portrayal of their father in the popular game Black Ops II, citing that he was presented as a "big halfwit who wanted to kill everybody", but the lawsuit was rejected.
5Vn4D TIL that the term 'intellectual' (as in, the noun, 'an intellectual') was coined to describe the debates surrounding the Dreyfus Affair, the famous scandal of a Jewish French soldier falsely convicted of treason