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TIL that a Texas Billionaire built a disposal site for radioactive waste over one of the largest reservoirs of fresh water in the south-west of the United States.

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X4nX TIL in 2007 a Belgian senatorial candidate posed nude and promised voters 40,000 blowjobs in a campaign ad. She didn’t win.
R5lV8 TIL that Richard Harvey, the recorder player on the soundtrack for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, did not know the track "A Window to the Past" would begin with a recorder solo until the orchestra started playing the piece in the recording studio.
KOPBw TIL in 2008, Maple Leaf foods found that their meat was contaminated by listeria bacteria, and instead of covering it up , the CEO went on TV and accepted responsibility for the disaster, apologized to the public and recalled $20 million worth of food products.
rN0ww TIL that NASA’s computers for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 had less processing power than a modern smartphone. The guidance computer had only 64KB of memory and ran at 0.043 MHz.
Me4Am TIL birds get drunk sometimes and fall, stumble, and crash into windows. In 2010 about 50 dead birds were found and a report showed nearby berries had high enough ethanol levels to intoxicate them. In 2018 berries fermented as a result of an early frost and a town was full of confused, erratic birds