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TIL that Coal power is more radioactive than Nuclear power.

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P6xG TIL In 1977, Maureen Weston of the U.K. voluntarily stayed up for a whopping 449 hours(18 days), and made it into the 1978 Guinness Book of World Records. But because staying awake for such long stretches poses so many health risks, Guinness chose to no longer acknowledge sleep deprivation records.
kGnd TIL that $2.5 billion dollars of the nearly $9.5 billion dollars of Haiti aid relief money went toward actual aid relief
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