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TIL that, including the Chernobyl disaster, Nuclear Power is responsible for 0.09 deaths per Terra-watt hour of electricity produced. Coal is responsible for 170 deaths/TWh

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loYYa TIL of Terry Marsh, who legally changed his name to "None Of The Above X" and ran for parliament. He is also a professional chessboxer.
wnZP TIL that “Fuck your ancestor to the eighteenth generation” is a Chinese insult, due to the high respect for one’s ancestors
D1vRp TIL there are parents that gave up legal rights to their high-school-age children for purposes of qualifying for federal, state & institutional financial aid. The parents are doctors, lawyers, insurance and real estate agents and in some cases have valuable homes and household incomes topping $250K.
wLVN6 TIL russian luitenant colonel Stanislav Petrov went down in history as the man who single-handedly saved the world from all-out nuclear war when he called out an false allarm when the soviet missile detection system claimed six US nuclear missiles have been launched.
6EMpm TIL There are "non-sterile" topical antiseptics (skin sanitizers)