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TIL That during his Indian campaign, Alexander the great encountered a tribe that hadn’t discovered fire yet

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8eMYK TIL Musicians United for Safe Energy, or MUSE, is an activist group founded by Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt and others, shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in March 1979, that advocates against the use of nuclear energy.
m1OWR TIL that Volleyball is estimated to be the sport with the second most participants in the world
14e7 TIL Nazi Germany produced Chlorine Trifluoride for use as a dual purpose incendiary and poison gas in WW2. ClF3 causes almost anything to spontaneously explode on contact, including wood, concrete, sand, gravel, glass, asbestos, water, and of course flesh.
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