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TIL that Bavaria has more installed solar capacity than in the entire United States.

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Y7x7Z TIL that FDR led an insurgency against NY's Tammany Hall machine when he became state senator in 1910, costing him the US Senate primary in 1914. Only after he became NY Governor in 1928 could he bring corruption investigations, ending Tammany's more than a century of control over the NY Dem Party.
6EewW TIL Mark ‘Coonrippy’ Brown ran for Governor of Tennessee in an attempt to win back his pet raccoon Rebekah, who was seized by authorities.
9nZB TIL More Africans have access to cell phone service than piped water. 63% have access to piped water. Yet, 93% of Africans have cell phone service.
xeJb TIL of a movie called “Margaret” which was in post-production for so long that two of its main producers had died years before the film was finally released.
JlBm TIL The first vibrator was steam powered and was called the “Manipulator,” which was invented by American physician George Taylor, M.D. in 1869 because Doctors were complaining of wrist fatigue from giving “pelvic massages” to female patients who suffered from female Hysteria