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TIL Tucker Carlson's mother left him only $1 because she couldn't stand him

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p89aG TIL jellyfish have been attacking nuclear power plants in Japan and India since the 1960s, with up to 150 tons per day removed from the cooling system of just 1 power plant. In India, workers removed over 4mil jellyfish from screens over the entrances to cooling pipes. That’s 80 tons of jellyfish.
1MXP TIL that the company that produces Sriracha hot sauce made $60 million in the year 2012 alone, while not spending one penny at all on advertising.
lQlG TIL There is a town in Michigan called Hell and it is for sale for $999,666.
X0EAk TIL that "Goodnight Moon" author Margaret Wise Brown died of an embolism following surgery, when kicking up her leg to show her nurses how well she was feeling caused a blood clot that had formed in her leg to dislodge and travel to her heart.
N7WM8 TIL that the marriage of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is the longest presidential marriage in US history. They had already been married for 30 years when Carter was sworn in as president in 1977.