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TIL breeder reactors are nuclear reactors that generate more fissile material than they consume

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5RjB TIL that pilots and flight crews are federally classified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) as “radiation workers” and receive higher doses of radiation than all other US radiation-exposed workers.
9wV4Q TIL about the disappearance of Richey Edwards, the lyricist and rhythm guitarist of the Welsh band Manic Street Preachers. Due to the strange circumstances surrounding his disappearance, there have been multiple theories that he faked his own death.
VMdN8 TIL that in 1964, Robert Peabody was exposed to 7 Sieverts/10K rads of radiation after confusing his chemicals, adding uranium solution instead of trichloroethane to his Uranium-235 mixture. He died 49 hours later.
O4Q6 TIL After Mark Twain met Helen Keller at a dinner party he was so impressed with her that he wrote to the wife Henry H. Rogers, a wealthy oil magnate, pleading her to convince her husband to support Keller’s education. Mr. Rogers agreed and personally paid her entire education.
9pMX TIL in 1861 there was 45 straight days of rain in California, creating a lake 300 miles long and 20 miles wide in the Central Valley and an inland sea in Orange County.