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TIL a coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy

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b6gEE TIL: Ternary computers use trits instead of bits and they are cheaper to manufacture and operate than binary computers.
QJv09 TIL over 85% of new cars and over 50% of used cars in the USA are financed, not paid for in a lump sum.
n5xB TIL in 1986 a French woman taught herself how to fly a helicopter, rented one, flew it over a prison, and plucked her bank robber husband off the prison roof.
OG4Ng TIL Paul Thomas Anderson contacted Warren Beatty about playing Jack Horner, a veteran adult film director, in his movie Boogie Nights. After 2 weeks of discussion, Anderson realized the 60-yr-old wanted to play 18-yr-old adult film star Dirk Diggler. When asked if he'd play Horner, Beatty declined.
7rNM TIL that a University of California physics professor wrote a mathematical proof paper to get out of a speeding ticket…and did!