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TIL Ocean thermal energy conversion, a technology invented at the end 19th century, has the potential to satisfy twice the global electricity demand without affecting the temperature of the ocean or the world’s environment.

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5V51p TIL about Alan Magee, "the Miracle of Saint Nazaire"a B17 gunner who fell approximately 20,000 feet without a parachute, and survived crashing through the skylight at the railway station in Saint Nazaire (France). He survived the war as a POW, and lived until 2003.
epwOk TIL that once a year the Jindo Sea parts, revealing a pathway between two islands in South Korea
dDY0Q TIL that Richard Feynman, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics, tried marijuana and ketamine in John Lilly's sensory deprivation tanks as a way to study consciousness.
ZXBa TIL the Russian ice hockey team died in a plane crash in 1950 and Stalin’s son, fearing his father’s reaction, created a new team and hid the news from him, and Stalin never knew the difference
EgyX TIL Bill Murray was up for the role of Willy Wonka in the Tim Burton’s film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but he didn’t take the role because he doesn’t check his voice mail very often.