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mxJQy TIL Butterflies were around on Earth 70 million years before flowers
5YgR8 TIL that Portland has started generating clean energy by replacing some water pipes with pipes that contain turbines. The turbines generate electricity from water that is already flowing under the city. The pipes are expected to generate $2,000,000 worth of renewable energy capacity over 20 years.
Z8LBp TIL Historian Allan Lichtman, inspired by a discussion with a geophysicist about earthquakes, developed a system that has allowed him to correctly predicted the winner of every presidential election since 1984 using a series of 13 true or false statements or "13 keys to the White House".
ndRd TIL of Diana Kim, a photographer from Hawaii, who, after 10 years of documenting the homeless, found her own father among them.
PYOlJ TIL When President Jimmy Carter told a joke during a speech in a college in Japan it was greeted with uproarious laughter. When he asked why the joke had gotten such a response, the Japanese interpreter replied: “I told the audience, ‘President Carter told a funny story; everyone must laugh.’ ”