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TIL: Snipers Attacked A Silicon Valley Power Station Last Year And Nobody Told Us

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awgKJ TIL that in 1982, 10yo actress Samantha Smith wrote a letter to USSR Gen. Secretary Yuri Andropov asking if he would engage in nuclear war. Yuri invited her to Moscow. She was greeted as a celebrity. She died 3 years later in a plane crash after capturing the attention of the world for her efforts.
7okP TIL Western science hadn’t yet discovered the Gorilla when Darwin was writing ‘On The Origin of Species’
x6yp7 TIL that "first world" & "third world" was used as to label geopolitical blocs
Eg4Oo TIL being sleep deprived can cause sexual arousal in mammals.
APN4 TiL in China a large industry developed using sewage as cooking oil.