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TIL about 2/3 of Hawaii's electricity is created via oil.

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0Qnj TIL: Today I learned about ghost flowers, a flowering plant with no chlorophyll.
a4RM TIL in 1995, when looking through the manuscripts of Carl Koller at the Library of Congress, a German historian found a small envelope of cocaine with the note: “Remainder of the first dose with which I made my initial cocaine experiment in 1884”
xMpk TIL a group of Scientists have discovered that cheese contains a protein that the human body recognizes in a fashion similar to addictive drugs, called “casomorphins,” or “casein-derived morphine-like compounds,” prompting one researcher to refer to cheese as “dairy crack.”
Zaea TIL a jail in Brazil allows its inmates to pedal exercise bikes to power lights in a nearby town in exchange for reduced sentences
kobB TIL: Hundreds of TSA agents have been caught stealing from passengers.