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

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X0AnE TIL the co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica was a 4'6" tall Scot with crooked legs and an enormous nose that he would sometimes augment with a papier-mache version. He deliberately rode the tallest horse available in Edinburgh, dismounting by a ladder to the cheers of onlookers.
xmg7 TIL The longest flight lasted over 2 months, a record that hasn’t been broken for more than 50 years.
95a7 TIL The Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Was Executed by ISIS
x6K5k TIL that the point of the oxygen mask before surgery is to get your lungs to 100% oxygen so when the anesthesiologist injects the general anesthesia they have time to insert the tube while you are breathing
neAxP TIL about 'Jemmy Button' the Fuegian native who was stolen on Darwins 'Beagle' to England, taught to be an 'English Gentleman' and returned to Tierra del Fuego where he subsequently reverted to his 'native ways' and was later blamed for the murder of a group of missionaries.