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TIL Cookie Monster's name is Sid!!

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VOm0 TIL that Iceland’s electricity is produced entirely from renewable energy sources (hydroelectric 70% and geothermal 30%)
rRPQy TIL that at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, where John Wilkes Booth is buried, visitors often leave pennies (which feature President Lincoln's face) on the Booth family monument.
4XOaX TIL of the Floppotron, a "robot orchestra" made from obsolete drives and scanners whose stepper motors are run at different speeds to produce musical tones.
REA8 TIL that the US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain, second only to Mexico.
gGb TIL In 1897, three men tried to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen-filled balloon. The balloon crashed two days after lift-off and the men spent the next 3 months trying to walk back to civilization…only to be eaten by polar bears.