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TIL there’s a plan to transition the US to 100% renewable energy by 2050

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NXXBe TIL The US Civil War ended in Liverpool, England
J1X11 TIL that up to half of the current Cherokee nation can trace their lineage to a single Scottish fur trader who married into the tribe in the early 1700's.
0LBj TIL in 1993 when a US Military food scientist was asked what should be used in the pictograph instructions to prop up the heater of their new “Meal, Ready-to-Eat” rations, he replied “I don’t know. Let’s make it a rock or something.” The rock illustration and the iconic phrase remain on MREs today.
E1mGo TIL that the rights to the film "Back to the Future" are entirely owned by its director Robert Zemeckis who has vowed for there to never, ever, be a reboot in his lifetime.
OGbQX TIL in 2012 a woman discovered that her ex-boyfriend from 12 years ago had been living in her attic for about two weeks. Her adult sons & nephew found him asleep in the back of the attic which caused him to flee. They also saw he had rigged the ceiling vents so he could watch her in her bedroom.