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TIL that the most dangerous nuclear accident in US history, the Three Mile Island incident, didn't affect the environment and had no casualties.

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V714 TIL that there’s a strong correlation between people who buy bird seed and people who usually pay their debts. Inversely, people who buy chrome accessories for their car tend to not pay their debts in full.
dxDd TIL of the 20,000 Japanese soldiers fighting in the Battle of Iwo Jima in WWII, only 1,083 survived.
KYLb4 TIL the city of Guangzhou, China, is also known as 'City of the Five Rams', from the five stones at the old Temple of the Five Immortals, which are said to have been the sheep or goats ridden by the Taoist culture heroes credited with introducing rice cultivation to the area.
49ga TIL The first color broadcast was in 1958 when a TV presenter pushed a button to change black and white into color for President Eisenhower’s speech
rXEx TIL that the Big Bang theory does not tell us how the universe began. It tells us how the universe evolved, beginning a tiny fraction of a second after it all started.