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

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XEpEP TIL in Prague there's a street so narrow it has traffic lights for pedestrians. Once a German tourist got stuck and had to be soaped up in order to slide out.
X0e6j TIL that scientists in Japan over a decade ago created an odor recorder that could analyze, store, and reproduce smells.
4PZJ TIL that there are just 357 drive-in movie theaters left in America.
wLwnM TIL about The Government Pension Fund of Norway, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. It was established to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector. Today it has over 1 trillion USD in assets, including 1.3% of all global stocks and shares.
Yp097 TIL the term “Crosshair” comes from when the military used actual hair in optics during WWII. Mary Babnik Brown first woman to have her hair used for military aircraft bombsights because she had never chemically treated or heated with a curling iron.