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TIL 80% of container ships use electric motors - they just use diesel generators to produce energy for the electric motor

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YaQW TIL that the only word in English that has the vowels a, e, i, o, u, and y in consecutive order is “facetiously.”
7AdX TIL for their 2011 tour, The Foo Fighters submitted their tour rider, or performance agreements, as a 50 page coloring book complete with a word search and maze.
GAyx5 TIL The New York Times tech writer, David Pogue was given 1 of 4 iPhones to ever leave Apple [2007] and lost it in a taxicab
vP8e7 TIL Prolific author, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Crichton wrote a video game called Amazon for the Apple II series computer in 1984
p88x4 TIL that last year in 2016, the first female South Korean President Park Geun-hye was removed from office after leaked information gave evidence Park was being controlled by a shamanistic cult