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TIL Texas is by far the No. 1 producer of wind energy in the United States; if it were its own country, Texas would be the fourth-largest largest wind-producing country in the world by the end of 2017.

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d8GoQ TIL that between 1968 and 2000, directors would use the pseudonym Alan Smithee to discredit themselves on projects they were dissatisfied with
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N8VE TIL that Jimmy Carter played a major role in eliminating guinea-worm disease - a parasite that is drank, and then burrows out of your body in the form of a worm.