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TIL that 440 nuclear reactors provide 10% of the worlds total electricity.

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VMMLk TIL Kevin Spacey's brother is a Rod Stewart impersonator
pgm8 TIL that the pitch of a hyena’s laugh/giggle reveals its age, while variations in the frequency of notes can encode information about dominant and subordinate status.
BgMNb TIL the Moon "wobbles" during its orbit, showing us a little more than half of the moon's surface from Earth. Since its orbit is not perfectly circular, the Moon changes its speed in orbit, and so the ratio between the rate of its Earth orbit compared to its rotation on its own axis varies.
n8lW TIL that Buzz Aldrin’s first words on the moon were “Beautiful view. Magnificent desolation.”
78W57 TIL Australia has slightly more land mass than the contiguous United States. Five of the six mainland states are each bigger than Texas. Just Victoria, containing the 2nd largest city Melbourne, is smaller.