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TIL Coal and gas are far more harmful than nuclear power

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R5d49 TIL Buddhists are advised to avoid these herbs (Five Forbidden Pungent Roots), as they tend to disturb the peacefulness of the mind and why is it immoral to eat garlic.
epyZE TIL that FBI agent William Roemer developed so much respect for his mafia adversary Murray Humphreys, that he chose not to be involved in his arrest and expressed his respects to Humphreys family after the gangster passed.
grLKy TIL that echidnas lay eggs. They’re genetically close to platypus.
6JGX TIL Blockbuster’s stock is still publicly traded
KOdY9 TIL Abraham Lincoln, prior to becoming President, was an avid boater and traveled on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers where his boat often got stuck on sandbars. In 1849 Lincoln invented a method for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals, making him the first and only U.S. President to receive a patent.