Not a New Year's Day parade float after all

• What in the heigh-ho is going on down at the swimming pool? 
• Why is there a replica nuclear power plant in my backyard? 
• Is this some kid's science fair project? 
• Couldn't the kid just grow mold on bread? 
• When was the Three Mile Island accident? TMI was almost forty years ago! 
• When did TMI change from "Three Mile Island" to "too much information?"

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/7-things-simpsons-got-wrong-about-nuclear

TMI

TMI is an abbreviation that stands for too much information. The term TMI is usually used when someone is sharing too many intimate details, though sometimes TMI is used to describe when someone is sharing too many boring details. The origin of the abbreviation is murky, it is probably linked to the advent of online communities and the use of abbreviations such as LOL (laugh out loud), BRB (be right back) and AFK (away from keyboard). TMI is one of the few abbreviations that migrated from the computer screen into spoken language and is now an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. 

*The cooling towers turn out to be stacked ceramic planters wrapped in industrial-strength Saran wrap.

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