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TIL Winston Churchill’s last words were “I’m so bored with it all.”

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loZvG TIL That 50% of all material used in reactors in the United States to generate electricity comes from recycled nuclear warheads. 45% of that total are Soviet warheads.
eygn TIL it wasn’t uncommon for married couples to sleep in separate beds until the industrial revolution, when people moved to crowded cities and living space was needed.
RlBQ TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General of the United States was forced to resign for publicly promoting sex education about masturbation as a means to reduce teen pregnancy
Z8P9D TIL There is a network of colleges that advocate the use of open licensed textbooks with professors adopting these books into their curriculum. As more textbooks are adopted, eventually students will less likely have to buy textbook for their courses in the future
kOeE5 TIL of 'kangaroo words', that is, a word that contains a synonym inside it, i.e MAscuLinE, BLOssOM, cHickEN or hoNOuraBLE.