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TIL that Coal power is more radioactive than Nuclear power.

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XNoQ TIL: A re-creation of the famous War of the Worlds broadcast preformed in Ecuador caused such a panic, that police and fire brigades rushed out of town to fight the supposed alien. After the people found out it was fake, they burned down the radio station, killing 6 people.
wGYP TIL there is no particular reason American legal pads are yellow. It might be because it is easier to read, because it hides the age of the paper, or to hide that the paper was made of recycled materials.
VBlM0 TIL that the United States once had a $10,000 bill with Salmon P. Chase as the face, a former Chief Justice and Secretary of the Treasury.
mxwmP TIL The paint colour Suffolk Pink was first created by adding berries to white wash and also using pig's blood to thicken the paint.
W74j8 TIL that out of the 13 official Disney Princesses, only Tiana from The Princess and the Frog was born in the United States. She was born around 1910 in New Orleans. While Pocahontas was born around 1596 in what is now Virginia, the United States didn’t exist at the time.