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TIL that the EPA lets you see where your electricity comes from using your zip code

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LQx1Z TIL about BonziBUDDY, a free virtual desktop assistant created in 1999. People called it spyware after it was found out to have collected user's personal information before serving them pop-up ads. Because of this, it had to pay $75k in fines, and was discontinued in 2004.
9wBNr TIL that Methamphetamine is legally prescribed to people in the USA. It's called Desoxyn.
NG06 TIL armadillos can inflate their stomachs and intestines with air and float across the water
vP6yD TIL that the acronym for Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" is BIGLY
X0ZaD TIL Due to the similarity between the Irish and Ivory Coast flags, when the Ivory Coast athlete Murielle Ahouré won the 2018 world indoor 60-meter dash, she borrowed an Irish flag from a spectator and reversed it.