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TIL nuclear power technology, is one of the safest, cleanest and sustainable option despite past propaganda. Even nuclear waste can be recycled.

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dgQr TIL Soviet Finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan once saved 20 people from a drowning trolleybus at the bottom of a 25 metres (80 ft) offshore at a depth of 10 metres (33 ft). He spent 45 days in a coma after this heroic act. Then he saved people from a burning building.
OGYxR TIL of baseball player Fred Merkle. In 1908 he made a base running mistake that ultimately cost his team the pennant. The play became known as “Merkle’s Boner”.
6ArW TIL Donkey Kong got his name because Miyamoto thought “donkey” meant “stupid” in English.
4krEb TIL that explore.org has a bunch of live animal streams & more around the world
W7NGL TIL the evolutionary leap from egg laying to placental birth may have been helped by DNA from an ancient retrovirus, which coded for a protein allowing cells around the placenta to fuse, blocking the exchange of maternal-fetal blood and preventing the mother’s immune system from harming the fetus.