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TIL that supplying all domestic water by sea water desalination would increase the United States’ energy consumption by around 10%, about the amount of energy used by domestic refrigerators.

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jNYaQ TIL that Constantinople was renamed to Istanbul in the 1930s, by the Republic of Turkey, not the Ottomans after the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
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