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TIL an average wind turbine creates enough energy to power 460 US homes every month

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rRlO0 TIL that, since the Great Potato Famine in 1845 Ireland, the population STILL hasn't recovered
v1x9r TIL When Time magazine named China's Deng Xiaoping as 1985 Man of the Year, it prompted Taiwanese leader Chiang Ching-Kuo to quicken the pace of Taiwan's democratization. Deng invited Chiang to meet with him but he declined, on the grounds that he did not believe in the Communist Party of China
0w7xM TIL A Greek male born in 384BC influenced theology of both Christianity and Islam during the Middle Ages. He was Aristotle
7r75Z TIL "Box beds" – cabinets with beds in them and, sometimes, lockable doors – were used for privacy and safety in parts of rural medieval Europe before individual bedrooms were common. They became fashionable even in homes with bedrooms and remaind in use in Scotland into the 1900s.
w7L6 TIL in 2001 woman stabbed her partner, skinned him and then tried to feed him to his children