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TIL that Peter Glasser was granted a patent in 1973 for converting solar energy to electricity in outer space and beaming them back to earth as microwave energy using a large antenna (up to one square km).

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R5La1 TIL the "Pauli effect" is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to mysteriously break in the presence of certain people. The effect is named after Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, whose presence was associated with spontaneous mechanical failure throughout his career.
0w0R1 TIL that videogames have been found to be more effective at battling depression than therapy.
kVNE TIL that bachelor President James Buchanan had a 10 year relationship with a man. Andrew Jackson noted the relationship by calling them “Miss Nancy” and “Aunt Fancy”.
xNdB TIL, James Hong, Lo Pan in Big Trouble in Little China, not only has almost 400 acting credits, but was a contestant on Groucho Marx’s You Bet Your Life back in 1950.
MQoV TIL that the only time the US had zero debt was in 1835, when President Andrew Jackson paid it all off