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TIL: the US solar industry employs twice the amount of workers than that of coal, oil, and natural gas combined

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OoA11 TIL in 1950 Wernher von Braun and 100 other Nazis in Operation Paperclip were transferred from Fort Bliss to Huntsville, AL. Within 20 years, the population of Huntsville grew over 740%.
PYLgg TIL in 2012, Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry began donating 3 insecticide-treated mosquito nets for every 3-pointer he made to the UN Foundation's "Nothing But Nets" campaign to help fight against malaria.
JLG1 TIL wild bananas are full of seeds and the ones we eat have been specially bred over the years to be seedless
OoNm6 TIL: The wealth of a samurai in feudal Japan was measured in terms of koku; one koku, supposed to be the amount of rice it took to feed one man for a year, was equivalent to around 180 liters.
YlGr TIL of Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first North American child to be born of European parents (Thorfin Karlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir), was born in Vinland around A.D. 1000. He would go on to be an important figure in the Christianisation of Iceland