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TIL about Frazer Lockhart and the Rocky Flats Cleanup Team. Rocky Flats was a nuclear weapons production facility with enough radioactive waste to fill 90 miles of rail cars. Frazer Lockhart, a DoE employee cleaned it up $30 billion under budget and 60 years ahead of schedule.

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v1Pp4 TIL that an author wrote 'Vienna without Jews' in 1922. 16 years later, jews were hunted down under Hitler's command
8e9KX TIL By the end of the 19th century, nearly 40% of American cars were electric.
gkbX TIL Nick Offerman has his own version of the Yule Log Fireplace video in which he sits and drinks whiskey by the fire for 45 minutes.
x6XOB TIL about Jane Wallis Burrell, the first CIA agent to die in service of the agency. She died on a runway in France in 1948 just 110 days after the Agency’s creation. She does not have a star on the memorial wall, as she did not qualify as the plane was commercially flown.
YDgr TIL a high school teacher made a tumblr about stupid things high schoolers write in essays