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TIL that there’s a town in Brazil that powers its streetlights by having convicts pedal bicycles attached to generators.

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690EX TIL thanks to a crossover comic series, Dr. Who is canon to the Star Trek Universe.
b9Nl4 TIL about Henry Dunant, a man who was so appalled and disgusted by the injury and death during the battle of Solferino, Dunant was compelled to create a neutral voluntary aid society that would tend to the wounded of both sides of every battle. This organisation later became known as the Red Cross.
KY064 Today I learned that Al green made more royalties from the Big Mouth Milly Bass toy than any other for his song ‘take me to the river’
VBkrQ TIL of the SS Birma, which steamed to aid The Titanic. They arrived too late to help, but held a memorial with a British flag they created themselves, and also took photographs of icebergs in the vicinity of the sinking.
X0Ok6 TIL in the 80s there was an all-girl skater gang called the Hags