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TIL the single largest institutional user of fossil fuels is the US Military.

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8a9GP TIL Anti Video Game activist Jack Thompson once said that if someone made a game about shooting up E3 than he would donate 10,000$ to charity. He refused to donate once the game actually got made
Meew7 TIL Paris has public sparkling water fountains throughout the city to encourage more people to drink water.
9XlX Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel had an obsessive fear of being poisoned, and would only eat food that his wife prepared for him. When she had to be hospitalized for six months in 1977, he refused to eat at all and died weighing 65 pounds.
XEAbQ TIL In 1838 a man started celebrity stalking Queen Victoria, breaking into Buckingham Palace multiple times and stealing the Queen’s underwear
P1Eeg TIL about X-linked Dystonia-Parkinsonism, an adult-onset, genetic movement disorder which affects individuals who descend from the Philippine Island of Panay. It is a neurodegenerative disease that evolves over the course of many years, resulting in significant disability and a shortened life span.