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TIL there is a concept for so called Solar Updraft Towers that are generating electricity from low temperature solar heat without solar panlels

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rRnJx TIL citizens of the Dutch city Zwolle are colloquially known as Bluefingers due to the 1682 sale of the town church's bells to the town of Kampen. After finding the bells too damaged for use, Kampen paid Zwolle entirely in pennies; fingers in Zwolle turned blue after counting so much change.
6EXMX TIL when actor Raymond Massey was divorced from wife Adrianne Allen they used, respectively, husband and wife divorce lawyers Dorothy Whitney and William Dwight Whitney. Raymond then married his lawyer Dorothy and Adrianne married her lawyer William
Eg8RV TIL the phrase “bucket list” didn’t exist before 2006. It’s widespread use and meaning is a direct result of the film, “The Bucket List” which came out in 2007.
PMve TIL there is a thing called Black Day (April 14) in South Korea where the people who didn’t receive anything on the equivalent of valentine’s day eat black noodles and mourn being single.
5Y0ZP TIL the tapwater in New York City has microscopic crustaceans in it, because of this it is considered not Kosher.