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TIL There Is A Way To Dispose Of And Deactivate Nuclear/Radioactive Waste While Creating Electricity.

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0Vav TIL: The Dead Sea Scrolls, prized by Jews, also talks about Gilgamesh, the Babylonian hero, as a real person who died in the Flood. He receives dreams of his impending doom, making it a possible prequel for his journey in his Babylonian Epoch.
grZQD TIL Easy Cheese cans contain a propellant piston and plastic barrier that allows the cheese to come out as a thick string rather than a mist of fluorescent dairy. This also allows Easy Cheese to be dispensed upside down, sideways, and right side up, and the reason it doesn't need to be refrigerated
4X6GN TIL that only one sitting President has been arrested while in office: Ulysses S. Grant, was arrested for speeding.
GAYZ4 TIL the first stop motion puppet film - The beautiful Leukanida (Film) from 1912 - was created by posing dead insects instead of using hand crafted puppets.
aplJ TIL that civilian GPS in the 90’s was purposely designed to be inaccurate, due to a feature called selective availability (SA). This changed in 2000 when President Bill Clinton decided to turn SA off and GPSs around the world instantly became 10 times more accurate.