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

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m187E TIL astronomers created fake stars to improve earth's telescopes view of real stars.
5Vwrn TIL of Jan Palach, He was a student at Prague University in January 1969 when he self-immolated in protest of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. 26 other self-immolations were made and Jan became an icon of Czech freedom and eventually a national hero after the Velvet Revolution
x6ARb TIL that there are 15 different plug styles.
LyRV TIL that ‘Zippo’ will repair any pocket lighter made by themselves, whether it be 1 year old or 100, for free.
YppP7 TIL the movie "An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn" was a satire of movies which are so bad that the director refuses credit and uses the pseudonym "Alan Smithee". The real-life director of the movie was so unhappy with it that he took his name off and it became a real Alan Smithee film.