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TIL about the Oklo Mine, site of the only known naturally occurring nuclear reactor on Earth.

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JaL4 TIL that Reuters was founded by Paul Reuters, who in 1848 established a route of carrier pigeons to transmit information about stock news that was faster than the postal trains of the time.
E11wW TIL A ten year old Brooke Shields posed nude for Playboy magazine
e0eGD Today I learned the city of Stockholm used the game Cities: Skylines to help design a new district and simulate housing and transportation
k8DB TIL The world’s most massive known organism, a 13 million pound Quaking Aspen clone colony in Utah named Pando, is dying.
ADE1l TIL In the 1850s the timber pirates of the Great Lakes stole lumber, burned ships, and openly threatened federal agents; killing atleast one. On May 6th 1853 the Buffalo, a lumber steam ship, rammed the USS Michigan but no charges were levied against the ship captain or owner.