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TIL That the birthplace of solar energy was in Olney, Illinois in 1902. Mysteriously, it’s the same year the white squirrels appeared there.

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p8GaA TIL Brad Pitt believes he has Prosopagnosia or "face blindness", a condition in which he has trouble recognizing and remembering faces, including his own
GxoG TIL that in 1948, people believed a 15 ft tall penguin existed. Zoologist Ivan Sanderson invested and claimed it not a hoax. It turned out to be Tony Signorini stomping around in the sand wearing 30-pound, 3-toed lead shoes as a prank for 10 years.
m1apx TIL the body of water that includes the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico is known to German oceanographers as the American Mediterranean Sea
d8J48 TIL about the Alcubierre drive, a solution of Einstein's field equations in general relativity by which a spacecraft could theoretically achieve apparent faster-than-light travel without breaking any physical laws. It would have to be made of matter of negative energy density, which may not exist.
OoJ5g TIL The Importance Of Being Well Dressed: 80 percent of managers feel clothing choices affect a person's chances of being promoted