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TIL that Until 2013, 10% of US electricity came from disassembled Russian nuclear warheads

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Pdbn TIL historians found European queens have been associated with a 27% increase in wars compared to European kings.
moWM TIL that congressional approval for the first Gulf War was effected by the testimony of a Kuwaiti nurse who claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. This never happened. The nurse was not a nurse. She was coached by a PR firm.
d8wgK TIL why wind turbines only have 3 blades, because 2 blades are prone to a phenomenon known as gyroscopic precession, and 4 or more blades create greater wind resistance, becoming less efficient at generating electricity.
4XjPg TIL that the last surviving Woolly Mammoths lived on an isolated island in the Arctic Ocean until just 2000 BC, not long after the construction of the Giza Pyramids
g1JD TIL Great Britain’s population doubled during the Victorian Era