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TIL billions of years before humans built their first nuclear power plants, 17 natural nuclear reactors were producing energy in Gabon

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7rE0P TIL Spy in The Wild, A PBS Miniseries, Uses an Animatronic Spy Cam To Get Close Up Shots Of Animals
Wj9B TIL in 1989 a MiG-23 pilot mistakenly ejected on take off from Poland, and the aircraft continued flying 560 miles on autopilot only to crash into a house in Belgium killing a teenager.
GAn61 TIL a minority of the world's languages are "ergative"—the object of a transitive verb & the subject of an intransitive verb are treated the same. For example: whereas in English we'd say "SHE likes HER" & "SHE walks"; in Basque (spoken in N. Spain/SW France), it'd be "SHE likes HER" but "HER walks"
VDY8 TIL the Friends cast still make about $20 million a year each from syndication rights
v1PdB It’s true that the plains of Kansas are a more familiar backdrop for tornadoes than Times Square, but the funnels can form just about anywhere if the conditions are right.