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TIL: Dodgers Stadium was built on land forcibly taken from Mexican-American families

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yVDj8 TIL of Yanis Kanidis, a 74 year old physical education teacher that helped save many children during the Beslan school hostage crisis.
Me7AA National Geographic Emerging Explorer Leslie Dewan is helping to revolutionize the nuclear power industry by designing a safer, more efficient alternative to today’s reactors.Conventional nuclear reactors only use about 3 to 4 percent of uranium’s accessible energy. The energy left behind is what makes conventional nuclear waste—radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years—so dangerous. Extracting more of the available energy reduces the radioactive lifetime of the waste. To this end, Dewan is helping to develop techniques that extract 96 percent of the available energy.
6978Q TIL fashion brand Off-White’s iconic trademark is the same as that of Glasgow Airport
DQgWp TIL the record for the longest name ever used was held by a German-American man. The name is so long it can't fit in this title but was abbreviated as Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr. The name has its origins in his Great-Grandfather's sarcastic response to a law mandating German Jews take a second name.
X4l8 TIL there is a strip club in Portland that serves only vegan food and only allows its strippers to strip in non-animal-based clothing