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TIL that the widow of the filmmaker who produced the 1974 film "Gone in 60 Seconds" owns the copyright to any vehicle called "Eleanor." She viciously defends the copyright to this day, even suing Carroll Shelby, and a YouTuber, seizing his project car and requiring him to delete his videos.

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j6NWX TIL that Jimmy Carter's longevity is actually an outlier in his family. His father, two sisters, and brother all died between the ages of 51-63; and all to same ailment: pancreatic cancer
lYdB TIL the term “soccer” was actually created and used by England prior to the term “football”
e0AZ6 TIL radioactive boars run wild in abandoned towns around the Fukushima nuclear disaster zone, and occasionally attack people.
PYnlG TIL the Bramble Cay Melomys is among the first mammals to disappear because of failure to adapt in the modern era. Some time between 2009 and 2014 the last of this species died, probably drowning in a storm surge on an island off the coast of Australia where it had thrived for thousands of years.
Me7AA National Geographic Emerging Explorer Leslie Dewan is helping to revolutionize the nuclear power industry by designing a safer, more efficient alternative to today’s reactors.Conventional nuclear reactors only use about 3 to 4 percent of uranium’s accessible energy. The energy left behind is what makes conventional nuclear waste—radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years—so dangerous. Extracting more of the available energy reduces the radioactive lifetime of the waste. To this end, Dewan is helping to develop techniques that extract 96 percent of the available energy.