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TIL Coal and gas are far more harmful than nuclear power

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7NB7 TIL that one of the only senators ever assassinated was Leo Ryan who was killed by Jim Jones’s cult members while they were in the process of committing mass suicide. He had come to investigate reports from concerned family members.
4XQWN TIL In Canada it's illegal to carry any weapon for the purpose of self-defense
neowG TIL: Pringles are not truly a potato chip but a "potato crisp" as they are made from a dough and fried. The can was developed by a engineer who wrote Fantasy Fiction and used a super computer to assure the shape and size of the can for minimum breakage on movement.
rNJD0 TIL it takes more than 60 days to climb mount everest.
4k96N TIL the Dyatlov Pass incident, the mysterious unexplained death of nine skiers in 1959, sparked sixty years of conspiracy theories. Theories such as soviet weapons test, yeti attack & UFO heat ray, but was finally solved in 2021 and shown to have been a slab avalanche.