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TIL in 1950, the US produced 30% of it’s electricity from renewable sources. Today, it’s 13.5%.

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p8RY4 TIL a Scottish man fasted for 382 days, living on vitamin supplements and non-caloric beverages. He was morbidly obese, weighing 456 pounds, and lost 276 pounds. The fast was monitored by doctors, who detected no ill-effects. He never regained the weight. It was the longest recorded fast in history.
vP1aD Today I learned that the same generic drugs produced by different pharmaceutical companies have different effects dependent on the filler ingredients.
KYVMG TIL about the term “desk murderer,” a term used to describe people who plan and organize killings without personally taking part in murder.
KPXR TIL when American troops came to England during WWII, they had to be taught that in Europe whites and blacks mixed
pLMA TIL of Camp Century, a top-secret US military base built under the ice sheets of Greenland in 1960 to house missiles. Built under the cover of climate research, it housed 200 people and was powered by the world’s first portable nuclear reactor. Denmark didn’t uncover the base’s existence until 1995.