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TIL the Canadian Government once approved a plan to extract oil from the Alberta oilsands using nukes, and the project only died because public opinion on nuclear devices soured after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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kJLQ7 TIL that five U.S. Presidents have the same birth place and death place: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Van Buren, Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter.
EZZX TIL that Whoopi Goldberg was in a movie where she played a leather-wearing police officer who had an overweight Tyrannosaurs Rex as a partner.
WVZA TIL that each year, on the 1st of August, at 17.00 people living in Warsaw stop for one minute to commemorate the Warsaw Uprising. And it looks awsome.
KO4PB TIL Neuroscientists have found evidence to suggest feeling powerful dampens a part of our brain that helps with empathy. Even a small amount of power can have this effect on someone
NkKJ TIL that there is a penguin in Japan named LaLa who has his own air conditioned room, wears a backpack and walks freely to the fish market.