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TIL That the state of Texas has its own power grid to avoid dealing with the US federal government.

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xVWpw TIL Julie Kavner, the voice of Marge Simpson, is 70 years old
BxWK TIL an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea meets a white man for the first time in 1976 and thinks the white man is covered in dirt/sand.
gNPy TIL that the species of banana eaten today is different to the species eaten pre 1965. The Gros Michel banana became commercially extinct in 1965 due to fungal disease. Today’s main export banana, the Cavendish, is now under threat from the same disease.
NDjM TIL that not once in Humpty Dumpty does it refer to him as an egg.
oB8bR TIL that in times of urgency, the Mongols rode 10 days on end without stopping to light a fire or have a meal. During such times they drank the blood of their horses to sustain themselves.