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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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Lk9Y0 TIL about Starlite, an enigmatic material of unknown composition that can, among other things: keep an egg cool after it was blowtorched for 5 minutes, ignore a plasma cutter capable of cutting a foot and a half of steel, and has had its properties verified by several governmental entities.
9wwVM TIL about Dina Sanichar (1861–1895) a feral child raised by wolves. He went on to live among other humans for over twenty years but never learned to speak
yQMmM TIL that the US is a more unequal society than ancient Rome.
ANYna TIL that Japan is working on wooden satellites that can cleanly burn up without leaving debris when they re-enter the atmosphere.
4XBeJ TIL: That "the fist of the sender," the personality of a morse code operator in WW2, could identify allies from enemies, their locations & troop movements, and more. The pace and style of their communication allowed expert operators to track them. This was the precursor to modern keystroke dynamics.