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TIL the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is powered by solar energy

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OoKWX TIL that as of 2015, only 9% of all plastic ever made had been recycled, 12% was incinerated and 79% was in landfills or the environment,
8e7G4 TIL that Henry Ford is largely responsible for American schoolchildren learning square dancing.
87w4 TIL When George Lucas was filming the Sandcrawler (in A New Hope) in Tunisia, the Tunisian government asked him to move it away from the Libyan border after Libya threatened military action, thinking it was a large war vehicle.
78NWp TIL that in February 2025 a group of 8 beavers constructed a dam in the exact location that the Czech government had planned to build one. The initial project had been in the planning stage since 2018 and would have cost over $1.2 million.
YBwP TIL that Ethiopia was the only African country that was never colonized