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TIL Brazil gets 85% of it’s energy from renewable sources

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wee7 TIL that the government has actually shut down 17 times over the past 37 years. It happened 3 times in 1977.
9Y7BD TIL that in 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope on the emptiest part of the sky they could find and left it for 10 days, letting light accumulate until incredibly faint objects could be detected. It resulted in an image of about 3000 galaxies. This is the Hubble Deep Field.
XAy8 TIL that after being spot on for almost 50 years, Moore’s law — which predicts the computing power to double every other year — is expected to slow down for the first time next year.
vY48 TIL a girl abducted in Africa was saved from her attackers and defended for about half a day by three lions.
7rkbr TIL that in 1913, Freud, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin and Hitler were all living in the same neighborhood in Vienna, Austro at the same time.