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TIL The communion bread market has been cornered, outcompeting nuns at monasteries

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yQXLv TIL The total energy released through an average hurricane is equivalent to 200 times the electrical generating capacity of the entire world.
VBOEZ TIL that, in 1972, several natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Oklo, Gabon. They worked around 1.8 to 1.7 billion years BP, continued for a few hundred thousand years, and produced around 100kW of thermal power
0wPOp TIL Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 had a day one patch amounting to more than 8GB as it turns out all said 8GB was the whole game and without the patch all you get is the already inaccessible tutorial.
Zp8kD TIL the British painted their cows with stripes during WWII to avoid car accidents during blackouts
VBWVZ TIL Strom Thurmond was the first person to be elected senator as a write-in candidate where the other candidate had ballot access.