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TIL that, for half the cost of a new nuclear power plant, we could retrofit 1,600,000 homes for energy efficiency and save the same amount of energy as the new power plant would make.

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Gly5 TIL if North Korean Olympic gymnasts don’t win medals, they are sent into labor camps
GA9J4 TIL North Korea ordered and took delivery of 1,000 Volvos ftom Sweden. They never paid for them.
9Y1Z7 TIL not all gum trees are Eucalyptus trees
bpwa TIL Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in ‘something like 1990’, seven years before the release of the first book.
VMjv4 TIL the song "Blackbird" was inspired by the racial tensions in the US in 1968 as a symbolic way to support the efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. McCartney underlined also that “bird” is a British slang often used for “girl”, which would make “blackbird” become “black girl”.......Also, Bach....