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TIL: There is not a single documented case of piranhas eating a human

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gMvRb TIL that in some countries, it's not illegal to escape prison providing no other laws are broken, as it's human nature to want to escape.
6EAvl TIL that the country of Paraguay runs on 100% hydroelectric power and only consumes 10% of the electricity it generates, exporting the rest. Almost all of this power comes from the Itaípu dam, which also provides over 25% of Brazil's electricity.
R7781 TIL that in 2013 the town of Nucla, Colorado passed a law requiring its citizens to own a gun.
4XLAa TIL that although the Chernobyl nuclear-power-plant had a meltdown in 1986 and had rendered the land around it uninhabitable, the remaining reactors of the facility remained in normal operation and generated power until 2000.
9YXmB TIL: The reason behind the sky appearing blue and the sun appearing yellow is the same