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

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d1Pj TIL Lt. General Sir Carton de Wiart was shot in the face, head, stomach, ear; survived 2 plane crashes; tunneled out a POW camp; tore off his fingers when a doctor refused to amputate; reportedly removed his eye b/c it kept him from aiming his gun; and threw his glass eye out of a taxi.
VB0em TIL Julia Chinn (c. 1790 – July 1833) was an American plantation manager and enslaved woman of “mixed-race” (an “octoroon” of seven-eighths European and one-eighth African ancestry), who was the common-law wife of the ninth vice president of the United States, Richard Mentor Johnson.
VMrGQ TIL cats in Kazan, Russia were so good at catching mice, they were shipped to St. Petersburg in 1745 to deal with a rodent infestation. A statue dedicated to the cats can be found in Kazan today.
Zpwpo TIL about Larry Hoover, a gang leader of CBGD, or Chicago's Black Gangster Disciples Nation. After being sent to prison, he was inspired by the biography of Richard J. Daley and decided to change his gangs GD to Growth and Development, and forced his army learn to better their community instead.
x64r0 TIL,world's oldest emergency call service was started after a neighbour who wanted to report a house fire in Wimpole street telephoned the fire brigade and was so outraged at being held in a queue by the telephone exchange that he wrote a letter to the editor of The Times,which prompted an enquiry.