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TIL: California geothermal energy plant, The Geysers, uses treated wastewater to recharge their reservoir

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57KP TIL 1961 US had it’s first Nuclear Accident, killing all three operators. One was blown into the ceiling by the force of the blast and impaled there by a reactor rod. They had to be buried like Nuclear Waste. (Idaho)
16yyO TIL about the war between Ohio and Michigan, which gave Michigan the Upper Peninsula and Ohio what's now known as the Toledo Strip.
9Y1R6 TIL One of the more plausible theories regarding JFK's assassination is that he was accidentally shot by a Secret Service agent reacting to Lee Harvey Oswald but fell down with an AR-15 in his hand when the follow-car he was in jolted forward
698A7 TIL the notion that separate New York City borough accents exist is false. Linguists are in agreement that there is no empirical evidence of systematic differences in NYC English across NYC’s five boroughs. There is no purely geographical variation in speech patterns that occur within NYC.
mnRv TIL the only countries not have ratified the UN treaty for children’s rights are Somalia, South Sudan and the United States