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TIL twice as much Wind power was created in America between 2017-2020 than 2013-2016 (22.8 GW vs 40.5 GW)

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rXjx TIL Microsoft Flight Simulator is the longest-running running software product line for Microsoft, predating Windows by three years.
Z1KG TIL that the name of textbook rental company, Chegg, comes from the contraction of chicken and egg, based on the founders’ experience after graduating from college; they could not land a job without experience, but could not get experience without a job, a chicken or the egg type of quandary.
e04L4 TIL that Nebraska's official state slogan is "Nebraska: Honestly, it’s not for everyone."
R5vW8 TIL The geometric foundational work for Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1915 was laid by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann some 60 years earlier
R5ora TIL that when the Americans liberated Kiska Island from the Japanese during WWII Admiral King told the Secretary of the Navy that Japanese dogs could brew coffee