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TIL you can whiten your teeth using banana peels
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Edl0
TIL that with all its renewable energy, on a sunny and windy day, Germany doesn’t need to run its conventional power plants
4kAd5
TIL During the 1966-1976 Irish Bank Strikes, the Irish economy essentially continued business as usual as a result of the trust and conversational personal contact circulating across local communities through the pubs.
WlOA
TIL in order to save tortoises on the Galapagos islands, sharpshooters from New Zealand were flown in to kill 100,000 goats from helicopters
o44o
TIL that in 1964, a parent wrote to the US Attorney General complaining that the lyrics to “Louie Louie” by The Kingsmen were obscene. After 2 years of investigation, the FBI dissmissed the complaint because the lyrics of that recording were “unintelligible at any speed”.
Kl66
TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart at first disapproved of Galaxy Quest, because it made fun of Star Trek; until Jonathan Frakes “Riker” convinced Stewart to see it, after which Stewart described the movie as “Brilliant… No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did.”