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TIL that in the United States, possession of child pornography often results in a harsher sentence than actually molesting a child would

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e0Qdg TIL of Red Rock Coulee, which features large numbers of strange round stone spheres.
78Dap TIL that in the 1950s, Las Vegas embraced its proximity to nuclear testing in Nevada. Hotels and casinos marketed "atomic tourism," hosting rooftop viewing parties where guests could sip "atomic cocktails" while watching mushroom clouds rise from bomb tests just 65 miles away.
gM1jA TIL that the Concorde supersonic airliner burned two tons of fuel just taxing from the gate to the runway
EPBW TIL that 53% of people in Fiji have no access to safe drinking water, despite the Fiji Water bottling company’s activity there.
x6Ook TIL Poison translates to Gift in German