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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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166oW TIL The Jeremy Kyle Show, a popular UK talk show, was cancelled in 2019 after a guest died of a suspected suicide seven days after he failed a lie detector test on the show. He was taking part in the show in an attempt to prove he had not cheated on his fiancee.
pekQ TIL Peter Falk lost his right eye to cancer at the age of three. He wore a glass eye in its place, which gave him his trademark squint.
6OwY TIL that “in comparison to Android users… iPhone owners are more likely to be female, younger, and increasingly concerned about their smartphone being viewed as a status object” and display “lower levels of Honesty–Humility and higher levels of emotionality.”
Vvvp TIL a British Gurkha soldier Dip Prasad Pun killed 30 Taliban single-handedly in Afghanistan
ZXMv TIL that King’s Dominion has a roller coaster that is so fast and intense that it had to be closed and redesigned because sustained G-Forces were causing riders to black out.