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TIL just 54% of U.S. adults can read at a sixth-grade reading level

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lAKa TIL that in 1925, a recently independent Ireland spent the one fifth of it’s annual budget on a Hydro-Electric Plant in efforts to modernize the country. At it’s peak it provided 96% of Ireland’s electricity - today it provides 2%.
AD4Lg TIL that the Nazi Germany Parliament was derisively referred to by Germans as the "the most expensive singing club in Germany", since it couldn't do much other than sing the National Anthem during its sessions.
yV85e TIL the chicken nugget was invented in the 1950s by Robert C. Baker, a food science professor at Cornell University, and published as unpatented academic work. This bite-sized piece of chicken, coated in batter and then deep fried, was called the "Chicken Crispie" by Baker and his associates.
8jeb TIL that during a battle of the Korean War, a mortar section was running out of mortar rounds. Instead of ordering more rounds, they accidentally ordered hundreds of crates of Tootsie Rolls, having not specified that “tootsie rolls” was a slang term for mortar rounds.
9ZJ7 TIL Girl Scout Brownies are not named after the dessert, but rather the Brownie goblins of folklore who at night aided in small tasks of the home. Harry Potter house elves are also based off of these Brownie goblins.