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TIL Part of the land where the Pentagon sits today used to be a hemp farm

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16x4D TIL twice as much Wind power was created in America between 2017-2020 than 2013-2016 (22.8 GW vs 40.5 GW)
NX071 TIL when Captain Francesco Schettino was asked why he abandoned the sinking Costa Concordia cruise ship in 2012 while the ship’s passengers were either dying or trying to escape, his excuse was that he accidentally fell into a lifeboat. He received 16 years in prison for his role in the incident.
XEmWE TIL that the United States has officially been in a continuous state of emergency since the September 11th Attacks.
nWB4b TIL from 1970 to 2015, The Sun published a picture of a topless female model on its page 3
ANAZ4 TIL the word for father is "mama" in most of the western Australian Aboriginal languages. The word for mother is also "papa" in a subset of these languages.