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TIL there was a natural nuclear reactor in present-day Gabon that produced about 100kw of energy 2 billion years ago, running for thousands of years. This is the only known example of naturally occurring nuclear fission.

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rNBpd TIL the Bourbon dynasty that ruled France from 1589-1792 only had five kings over that duration.
pLMA TIL of Camp Century, a top-secret US military base built under the ice sheets of Greenland in 1960 to house missiles. Built under the cover of climate research, it housed 200 people and was powered by the world’s first portable nuclear reactor. Denmark didn’t uncover the base’s existence until 1995.
gr0aW TIL that the longest scientific name of any living or fossil organism is Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis, a bacterium isolated from soil collected at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, one of the longest place names in the world.
Lr1r TIL The Japanese Army used 3,500 tons of snow to create a Star Wars mural
lomea TIL that Key West was called Cayo Hueso (Bone Cay) by the Spanish because of all the human skeletons littering the isle