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TIL, The British National Grid have to prepare for power surges due to so many people switching on kettles during advertisement breaks of popular shows.

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b6Y64 TIL of the 1908 Tunguska explosion in Siberia, which experts believe was an asteroid that ripped apart 800 square miles of forest
6EL5J TIL The Beatles song 'Mean Mr. Mustard' was inspired by a Scotsman, John Mustard, who gave his wife only £1 in the year before they parted. Lennon read about in the Daily Mirror on June 7th 1967.
mxlkO TIL the name “Canola oil” was coined for marketing reasons to avoid using the word “rape”, as in “Rapeseed oil”, in the product’s name.
R7vo9 TIL that NASA has confirmed that the earth is greener than it was 20 years ago due to China's and India's dominates heavy investments in re-plantation.
pElb TIL that Genghis Khan beheaded a city of over 1.75 million people because one of the citizens killed his son-in-law