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TIL the United States contains three electrical power grids: The West, The East, and Texas

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PeRL TIL that 80% of the lyrics for Nirvana’s debut album were written the night before recording
Yp0Zx TIL that the past tense for the English word ‘dare’ is 'durst’
KKBa TIL New Amsterdam was given to the Duke of York in 1664 as an 18th birthday present from his father. He then renamed the city New York.
eRlE TIL John Lennon had terrible stage fright, so bad that he would vomit right before every public performance.
grj6y TIL before going down the ladder of the lunar lander, Neil Armstrong threw a bag of trash on the moon. It then became the subject of the very first photograph he took on the moons surface.