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TIL that a giant Solar Wind Energy Tower is proposed in Arizona, which would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam

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R5MV4 TIL of Jerome Robbins' "Mistake Waltz", a choreography, where one dancer is always purposely out of step.
9wJpm TIL of the Samoan branch of the Nazi Party. Support for the Nazi Party was strongest among mixed-race settlers of German descent in the territory. The branch was criticized by the German consul to New Zealand, Walter Hellenthal, over its poor organisation and the racial make-up of its members
6EVJQ TIL for the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable...until a fungus figured out how to rot it
6rMZ TIL it’s a faux pas in Russia to give your date a dozen flowers; You give an odd number of flowers for a happy occasion, and an even number for condolences.
lWlK TIL about “token sucking” - someone, generally a homeless person, earns his sustenance by clogging the token receptacle in the subway turnstile with gum or a paperclip. The tokens become backed up in the receptacle and then “sucks them out by placing his lips around the opening and inhaling.”