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TIL that a Japanese company is proposing to build solar power cells on the Moon to provide clean energy to Earth.

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0vrN TIL, in China, before it there was a vaccine, smallpox scabs were ground up and blown up the noses of healthy people in order to immunize them.
wKe6 TIL after refusing to abandon a dying comrade numerous times , Warrant Officer Kevin Wheatley pulled the pins from two grenades and calmly awaited the Viet Cong, holding one grenade in each hand. An action leading to his death and him being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
XWRP TIL Ron Perlman, the actor who plays Hellboy, also does the voices for The Lich from Adventure Time and the narrator for the Fallout series!
7W47 TIL that the Romans decided it was a good idea to put lead in everything, and consequently had severe cases of lead poisoning.
W7rx9 TIL the actor with the most on-screen kills is Samuel L. Jackson with 1,734. Completing the Top 5 are: Milla Jovovich (1,299), Jet Li (1,076), Dolph Lundgren (940), and Arnold Schwarzenegger (842).