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TIL that Coal power is more radioactive than Nuclear power.

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PYwGe TIL Someone in the distant past took a poop in a cave, and then 14,000 years later scientists in an advanced civilization are now fawning all over that piece of poop, making it perhaps one of the most valuable pieces of poop in history.
woAQW TIL that, in 1947, there was a proposal to create an independent united Bengali state instead of partitioning Bengal between India and Pakistan. It was not accepted, though it did have some support. (In 1971, east Bengal, also known as East Pakistan, acquired its independence as Bangladesh.)
1EQ8 TIL that portions of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s doctoral dissertation were posthumously found to have been plagiarized verbatim from other sources.
9wloG TIL in the Lorax (2012) by Illumination, "How Bad Can I Be?" only exists in the film because the original, "Biggering", was not considered palatable because of it's much darker commentary on big business, anti-corporatism and greed as the author (Dr. Seuss.) intended.
WwX9 TIL Portal 2 was supposed to have an ending where Chell spoke, but was scrapped because game-testers couldn’t figure out who was speaking.