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TIL coal power plants produce more nuclear waste than nuclear power plants

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Wk58d TIL of Ghulam Dastagir, a Stationmaster who refused to leave his post during the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, & prevented any trains from stopping at the station, saving thousands of lives even as his colleagues were dead and he himself spent 2 decades in and out of hospital due to long exposure to the Gas
AoPg TIL Ethel Merman’s last film appearance was “Airplane!,” where she played a man who thought he was Ethel Merman.
aw1Qb TIL An ostrich's brain is smaller than its eyeball!
d8Mxj TIL that according to Fermi estimation, the average person meets 10.76 murderers in their lives
VBk6p TIL that the French mass media corporation Vivendi was originally founded in 1853 as a water company by an imperial decree from Emperor Napoleon III