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TIL America Just Built the World’s Largest Solar Power Plant in the world

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bjaQ TIL there are fungi that eat radiation growing inside the Chernobyl power plant
grEaL TIL Osamu Tezuka (God of Manga) is so beloved and respected in Japan that after news broke of his passing from stomach cancer on February 9, 1989. News coverage and tributes from Japanese fans was so overwhelming that it almost overshadowed Emperor Hirohito, who passed away a month before him.
6bjX TIL The Movie ‘My Cousin Vinny’ is Often Used in Law School Because of its Accurate Representation of Courtroom Procedure
1kgW TIL in 2008 a Russian politician’s speech was interrupted by a flying remote control dildo
mmNR TIL Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, calls sick children in hospitals and talks to them in Character. “…Her mother was in tears, just crying. She said that was the first time her daughter had smiled in six months.”