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

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gBeW TIL Actor/Comedian Kevin Hart organizes a free-to-join 5K in every city he visits for his comedy tours just because he wants company on his morning runs.
yV7XV TIL a nude painting of Bea Arthur that she didn’t even sit for, sold for nearly 2 million dollars in 2013
XPL6 TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China
pYO5G TIL that there is music hidden inside the windows folder
xVgYD TIL That Down Syndrome named as such because the term "Mongolian Idiocy" is deemed offensive and so the family name of the person who published paper about it, John Langdon Down, used to rename the syndrome and that happened long after he died. Down also used to call them "Mongolian Idiots"