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TIL that the Shift key is called that because it used to physically shift the entire typing apparatus in typewriters in order to access the capital letter on each typebar

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m55O TIL that the Sierra Nevada brewing co. is almost 100% energy self-sufficient, and recycles almost all their own waste materials!
QJpLa TIL American Gothic (1930) by Grant Wood depicts a Farmer and his Daughter, not a Farmer and his Wife
mxRDy TIL of the 2018 seismic event of Mayotte, a 20 minute long earthquake-like event that was detected by instruments across all the globe but wasn't felt by a single person, and lacked two of the three types of waves usually detected in earthqakes.
EO10 TIL Carl Sagan was one of Bill Nye’s professors at Cornell University.
QJlYL TIL the "50 years of oil and gas supply" remaining for global reserves is the same time estimation as 30 years ago, 20 years ago, and 10 years ago. The amount available to extract steadily increases with efficiency and technology and has done so at roughly the pace of extraction for decades.