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TIL in 2002 a study found that the sun provides the Earth with more energy in one hour than humans can use in a year

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NXbdM TIL that in 2016, France legislated a Food Waste Law that bans supermarkets from wasting unsold food. It mandates that supermarkets must compost their leftover produce, or donate the goods to charity.
laZ7 TIL Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a spin-off from the 90’s show Space Ghost Coast to Coast
aw0pb TIL A solar plant in the Mojave Desert generates so much heat it incinerates birds in mid flight
y9Ow TIL: The word “weird” used to mean “having the power to control fate”, deriving from the proto-norse “wyrd” which roughly means “fate”.
R5777 TIL that Salami Slicing or ‘Penny Shaving’ as seen in ‘Hackers’ (1995) and ‘Office Space’ (1999) is a legit fraud technique seen in the real world.