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TIL about long-term nuclear waste warning messages, designed to warn civilizations ~10,000+ years in the future of the dangers of nuclear waste sites. Proposed solutions include an atomic priesthood to perpetuate rituals and myths, and cats genetically modified to change color when irradiated.

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loGOV TIL that it is illegal to die in Longyearbyen , Svalbard group of islands in Norway.
6EpMl TIL that one of the rarest fish in the world is the Devils Hole Pupfish. They are only found in Devils Hole a water filled cavern in Nevada and are critically endangered with only 136 fish left in the wild.
rRdpo TIL that immediately after the end of slavery was declared in America, there was a surge in Wanted Ads placed in newspapers across the country. African-Americans used them to search for family members sold or escaped, sometimes decades earlier.
gMb47 TIL Mr. Bean's choir theme song translates to "Behold the man, who is a bean."
nZEW TIL that the first non-white player in the NBA was Wataru Misaka an Asian American from Utah.