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TIL 2018 is the fourth year in a row Costa Rica generated more than 98% of its electricity from renewable sources. Almost no fossil fuels were used.

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R5BP7 TIL Vincent Van Gogh originally planned to become a minister. As a missionary in a poor Belgian mining town, he gave away his nice lodgings to a homeless person and moved into a small hut where he slept on straw. This caused the church to dismiss him for "undermining the dignity of the priesthood."
m1Y1y TIL that half of Niger's 25 million population is aged 14 or below, with only 4% making it to their 60s.
6EeAY TIL of a horse named Sergeant Reckless, who was purchased by the Marines as a pack horse in a division where she would sleep on cold nights, and was known for her willingness to eat nearly anything, including scrambled eggs, beer, Coca-Cola and, once, about $30 worth of poker chips
6Bb7 TIL: The inventor of the chocolate chip cookie traded her recipe to Nestlé Toll House in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate chips.
Z85Ba TIL In Australia, women who did not volunteer to care for the sick during the 1919/1920 Influenza pandemic were sent white feathers.