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TIL Illinois holds about 1/8 of all nuclear waste in the USA, by far the most for a state, about 10k tons.

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8aNrL TIL that Guinness World Records were started by the Guinness Breweries to settle arguments about records debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland when their managing director got involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the red grouse.
rNAxo TIL of Movile Cave, which has been completely sealed off from the outside world for 5.5 million years and evolved dozens of animal species found nowhere else, sustained only by toxic chemicals in the air and water, not photosynthesis.
E1Myp TIL Stalin wasn’t Russian (and Hitler wasn’t German)
9xVr TIL Pistachios used to be dyed pink and would stain your fingers when you ate them.
65mJ TIL That the Susan G. Komen only donates 21% of all donations to breast cancer research.