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TIL that C in CCleaner stand for crap

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y4Vv TIL Margaret Thatcher was more proud of being the first UK Prime Minister with a science degree than she was of being the first female Prime Minister.
LQMBV TIL The Sun can be observed with a hydrogen-alpha telescope that filters out all but one wavelength of red light. Lots of processing is necessary to see details and an image stacking program removes noise caused by Earth’s turbulent atmosphere. Astronomers call this "seeing"
bPbQ TIL there is still a lava-like molten mixture of nuclear reactor core that remains from Chernobyl - 300 seconds looking at it and you would be dead in two days
vpkx TIL: the world’s 4th largest lake has dried up to less than 10% its size and is now a giant desert, dotted with shipwrecks.
0dOjj TIL that a Dutch warship was able to escape to Australia from the Japanese because it's crew disguised it as a tropical island