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TIL Florida passed a bill in1967 which would allow Disney to build their own nuclear power plant at Disney World, that law still stands

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GYgB5 TIL The school lunch program was invented to help prop up food prices by absorbing farm surpluses
D1wnV TIL doctors were able to restore a blind man's vision with a surgery involving bionic eyes. He had been blind for 40 years.
6E6mW TIL of Jack Unterweger, an Austrian serial killer. After murdering an 18-year-old girl, he got a life sentence, but became an author and campaigned to get himself released after just 15 years. He then became a reporter, reporting on his own crimes as he proceeded to kill at least 9 more people.
XEX8P TIL a Graveyard Spiral is a phenomenon when a plane is titled and flying in a descending spiral, but the pilot doesn't detect the tilting and tries to correct the descent by pulling up, but this only tightens the spiral until the plane crashes.
v1r17 TIL that the Moon has moonquakes, just like how the Earth has Earthquakes