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TIL that nuclear energy is the safest energy source in terms of human deaths - even safer than wind and solar

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699wm TIL the small and exquisite Shropshire sun pendant looks like art deco, but this gold treasure is in fact 3,000 years old, from a time when it was assumed the local Britons were living in huts or caves
b9W1N TIL Homosexual men in England used a unique cant slang, Polari, to communicate, as being homosexual was a crime punishable by prison and mental institutions.
W7doo TIL about 'deferred prosecution agreements.' Once a way for low-level drug offenders to avoid incarceration by accepting probation, corporations now negotiating DPAs to escape criminal conviction by paying a fine.
OwKX TIL that 85% of bikinis sold never touch the water
QJkwM TIL that Disney recalled 3.4 million copies of the children's movie "The Rescuers" because one of the animators inserted a picture of a nude woman into two frames of the movie.