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

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rRJro TIL the first state-issued license plate in the USA, a Massachusetts plate from 1903, is still being used by a relative of the original licensee.
b6L5N TIL that in 2007 on a trip to Paris, Prince Harry had his driver go through the same tunnel his mother Princess Diana died in at the same speed her car was going at the time, in an attempt to find closure for her death. He described the attempt as ill-conceived, saying it only brought him more pain.
9YKrD TIL that a 'basket case' was coined in WWI to describe a soldier who had lost his limbs in battle and was carried out 'in a basket'
ADQ47 TIL about "It's not the fart that kills you, it's the smell," a quote by Norwegian rally car driver Petter Solberg. In Norwegian, fart means speed and smell means impact. The expression has become a meme.
wDZM TIL that in soviet Russia there was a civilian award for bearing and raising 7 or more children called “The Order of Maternal Glory”