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

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N9O6 TIL that the annual revenue of all companies founded by Stanford alumni and faculty members is $2.7 trillion, more than the GDP of all but nine countries in the world.
44nN TIL In 1897, 6 Inuit were taken to the Museum of Natural Science to be studied. All but two died of disease. A boy who survived pleaded for his dead father to have a traditional burial, so the curators staged a fake burial to trick the boy. Years later, the boy found his fathers skeleton on display.
woPXo TIL about a brief conflict known as the Football War or the 100-Hour War, between El Salvador and Honduras, in the FIFA World Cup, which erupted following a series of violent incidents during FIFA World Cup qualifiers between the two countries. This was an expected extension of the Cold War
9w6dG TIL the leading hypothesis for why zebras have stripes is because it helps prevent horse flies from biting them.
eJpk TIL Elephants can be right or left-tusked the same way humans have a dominant hand. Their dominant tusk is usually more worn down.