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TIL the under construction Medong Hydropower Station in China is projected to produce more energy than the total energy consumption of the UK.

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m15ep TIL after 20-year-old US Marine Lori Padilla killed Rojita Kinjo and her young daughters Mitsuko and Mariko while speeding in Okinawa, Japan, a court ruled that Padilla should pay the victims' family 62 million yen, but as she had already left Japan, the amount was paid by the US and Japan
J1d4l TIL Denmark fitted contraceptive coils in half the female population of Greenland (without informing them of what their purpose was or receiving consent) to reduce birth rates in the 60s and 70s. Most of those affected were children.
bQYQ TIL there are 1,584 people in the US names Seven, but virtually none named Six.
0vVv TIL the average American is more religious than the average Iranian
EOrV TIL the NFL earns revenues of $9 billion and doesn’t pay taxes. This is because in 1966, the phrase which allowed “business leagues, chambers of commerce, real-estate boards, boards of trade” as non-profits was changed to include “or profession football leagues”.