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TIL that Coal power is more radioactive than Nuclear power.

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l7JDa TIL 76% of the Dutch take part in recreational cycling (i.e cycle just for fun)
JOy1 TIL that in 1980, a Texaco oil rig drilled into the top of a salt mine underneath Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, causing the lake to drain into the sinkhole – swallowing 11 barges – and a nearby canal to reverse direction. All 55 miners in the salt mine escaped. The lake is now permanently saltwater.
b6mp4 TIL legendary sing-songwriter and inventor of the Jello Shot, Tom Lehrer, transferred all his music into the public domain and all of his recorded songs can be downloaded for free.
ZLJ4 TIL that Sri Lanka and India were connected as recently as the 15th century by a chain of limestone shoals known as “Adam’s Bridge”
dZj7 TIL the odds of your father’s sperm meeting with your mother’s egg to create you is 1 in 4 quadrillion. The odds of you existing as yourself (traced back to your first ancestors) is 10^2,685.000.