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TIL Russia has hundreds of nuclear powered lighthouses and beacons along the Northern Shipping Route.

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awRVM TIL BBC has a kids show called “RastaMouse” where the main character- RastaMouse, is a Jamaican, crime-fighting, reggae music star
ADoBx TIL that thread is measured in lengths called Lea (120 yds/110 m), Hank (a length of 7 leas) and Spyndle (14,400 yards/13,200 m), and Thread (54 inches/1.4 inches). Denier refers to the weight (in g) of 9000 m of thread. A single thread of silk 9000 m long weighs about a g, so it's 1 denier.
bWvZ TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson tried updating Wikipedia to say he wasn’t atheist, but people kept putting it back
GEXg TIL that there is an organization called the National Odd Shoe Exchange where you can send and receive shoes if your feet are different sizes
8aYNZ TIL that Alexander Hamilton, in addition to helping write the Constitution and being first Treasury Secretary, also was the commander of the entire U.S. Army for six months.