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TIL the UK’s military satellite family is called Skynet.
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TIL of the Great Donor Show, a controversial reality TV show from 2007 where a terminally ill woman intended to donate a kidney to one of 25 participants. The show was staged, with the ultimate motive of increasing the amount of donors, a goal in which it succeeded. The show won an emmy
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TIL that a few weeks before the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, US scientists performed a safety test on the EBR-II reactor by disabling cooling pumps and automatic protection systems at full thermal power. The core passively cooled itself as designed without human intervention or damage.
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TIL Nova Scotia provides Boston with an annual Christmas tree in commemoration for the city’s humanitarian efforts after the Halifax Explosion; history’s greatest man-made pre-nuclear explosion.
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TIL according to Worker’s Comp, the average maximum compensation for an arm in the US is $169,878. For a leg, it’s $153,221. So if something costs “an arm and a leg,” it comes to a total of $323,099.
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TIL: A nuclear physicist describes 7 things you probably didn't know about radioactive fallout from a nuclear bomb