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TIL Jose Canseco is the most successful author athlete of all-time having published 2 books—Juiced and Vindicated. Juiced spent 8 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists and details the Steroid Era of baseball.

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Xkgj TIL In Norway, 99% of electricity production is from hydroelectric plants. They plan to increase annual production by 15 terawatt-hours (12%) by 2020 and could double installed capacity if they build new cross-border links to ship the surplus electricity abroad.
pY0Qp TIL researchers have observed that every culture has a word for black and white. When a culture has a third word for a color, it is always red. If it has a fourth word, it is either yellow or green
ZNPD TIL that a class at the University of Minnesota managed to condition their psychology professor by paying more attention and laughing at his jokes each time he stood in the right side of the room.
RMR7 TIL The greatest living fighter ace is 95, had 222 air kills, and was shot down 16 times.
E16Gp TIL That Almon Brown Strowger noticed he was losing business because a competitor would have his wife, a telephone operator redirect calls asking for Strowger to his business. Strowger later invented the automatic telephone exchange which eliminated the need for operators.