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TIL That more uranium is released by coal fired power plants in one week than has been released by all nuclear power plants combined (including Chernobyl/other accidents) over the past 50 years

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X0DwR TIL that all representations of the Egyptian god Aten were accompanied by a sort of footnote. It stated that the art was only an imperfect representation of something that transcended nature, and could not be fully or adequately represented.
B0Dk TIL that at least two people died from the “Ice Bucket Challenge”.
gYXA TIL: In Vietnam, the Vietnam War is known as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War.
X0wJ8 TIL about the liking gap, which is that people you meet like you more than you think. Psychologists found that "people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company."
1aMpD TIL Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to run for president in 1972 & ran under the slogan “Unbought and Unbossed"