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TIL about Right-wing spin doctor, Frank Luntz.
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P1WrG
TIL in the 50s Disneyland offered fishing on Tom Sawyer Island in an area called Catfish Cove. Guests could borrow a pole and a can of worms to try and catch fish. They offered to clean, ice and store them until close at a restaurant. It was promptly ended after fish were discarded all over the park
kJGag
TIL that US Election Day was chosen as a Tuesday in November in 1845 to making voting as easy as possible for the American 19th century farmer. After the Fall harvest, before the Winter snow, with enough time for travel to the polling place and back home without missing Sunday Church.
QJwGa
TIL that France produces 80% of its electricity from nuclear power. Highly radioactive nuclear waste from its production amounts to 10g/year/person. For a person living a 100 years, this amounts to a cube with a side length of 3.8 cm (1.5 inches) - roughly 2/3 the size of a standard Rubick's Cube.
4mw5
TIL: Coconut crabs are so adapt and hearty to living on the land that they can live up to 60 years and will drown if submerged in water for too long. They also can climb trees and will do so for coconuts which they eat.
kwV7
TIL of ‘The Jungle,’ the largest homeless encampment in the US – ironically, next to a creek in Silicon Valley.