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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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9xPp TIL: Monet had surgery on his left eye enabling him to see ultra violet light
l76br TIL that when the Czech Republic surgically castrated 94 sex offenders, none of them comitted further sex crimes.
wol7E TIL that Phineas and Ferb holds the record for the most episodes of any Disney Channel animated series. The show ran for 222 episodes over four seasons, from 2007 to 2015.
8LxP TIL The etymology of the worlds most recognizable word, “okay / OK”, comes from a fad in the 1830s where people purposely misspelt “all correct” as “oll korrect”.
v1E4K TIL: Scientists used Sunflowers near Chernobyl after the 1986 nuclear accident, to extract radioactive cesium from contaminated ponds nearby. Then again in 2011 at Fukushima to extract radiation from the nearby communities.