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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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M7Xga TIL: Helium is generated by radioactive decay, is a non-renewable resource, physically escapes into space, is used in applications such as MRIs, breathing mixtures and welding gas, and has no substitute.
P141E TIL that they gave Molly (MDMA/ecstacy) to octopuses in the name of science. Known for being anti-social, this made them more social.
Eg16X TIL - Onions have more DNA than humans
4XnZg TIL pistol shrimp produce a snapping sound that is so loud, US submarines would hover above colonies of them because the sound kept them from being detected by Japanese sonar.
Ey5P TIL not only are there radar detectors, but radar detector-detectors, and even radar detector-detector-detectors