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TIL - The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. If you scale this to 46 years then the human race has been here for just 4 hours. The Industrial Revolution began just 1 minute ago and in that time, 50% of the Earth’s forests have been destroyed.

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Edl0 TIL that with all its renewable energy, on a sunny and windy day, Germany doesn’t need to run its conventional power plants
Lkylp TIL that Plutonium is so toxic that if 500g of plutonium dust released into the air, it would be sufficient to kill nearly 2 million people. It is just due to heavy metal poison effects, not radioactivity. This makes the toxicity of plutonium roughly equivalent to that of nerve gas.
jppv TIL that British engineers laid a fuel pipeline under the English channel in a single night, under cover of darkness, to supply the Allied forces in Normandy.
G6lG TIL Samuel James Seymour, the last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination, was interviewed about in 1956 on the CBS quiz show “I’ve Got a Secret”.
QJBna TIL the 1959 film "The Tingler" was about a parasite that causes tingling sensations in victims. The films producers rigged surplus WWII aircraft motors to random theater seats, so viewers would "feel the tingler" when it attacked. Some viewers were also paid to pretend to scream and faint