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TIL that with all its renewable energy, on a sunny and windy day, Germany doesn’t need to run its conventional power plants

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e0dbE TIL Tennis athletes runs at least two times more distance than the most active American Football players in each of their respective matches.
N7RlE Til england and Wales have a free anonymous drug testing service so that if you are determined to take drugs you can at least know it is what you think it is.
b7E9 TIL that L. Ron Hubbard awarded himself his own Ph.D as he himself owned the ‘university’ from which he 'graduated’
0wrwv TIL a library in Herculaneum was burned and buried in 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. For 250+ years, scholars have been unrolling/attempting to decipher recovered manuscripts from the only antiquarian library ever recovered. The site was never fully excavated; it is assumed more are still buried.
vPRwj TIL that “poop sweats” — the hot flashes one can get while excreting — are caused by stimulation of the vegus nerve, which is why diarrhea can trigger the urge to get naked.