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TIL Norway gets 98-99% of its electricity from hydroelectric power, more than any other country

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Yp66A TIL that the Uruguayan navy once use stale cheese as cannonballs once they had run out during a battle against Brazil. The Uruguayans won the battle.
NRm8 TIL a soldier posted on Peleliu in 1944 craved ice-cream so much that together with aircraft engineers put a can filled with milk onto the underside of each wing tip of their planes, attaching a stirring shaft to a wind-driven propeller and then taking off. They made 100 portions of ice every day.
orWW TIL President Lyndon Johnson was infamous for having meetings while on the toilet
m1Y5v TIL black widow spiders are not aggressive — you often have to actually pinch or squeeze one to get it to attack — but their venom makes bites extremely painful to humans, and to small animals like mice, fatal.
grWWD TIL The Common Swift Is the Record Holder for Longest Uninterrupted Flight. It can stay in the air for 10 months straight