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TIL the proportion of Iowa’s energy that comes from wind is at almost 60%, the highest in the United States.

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yQEEM TIL that in 2006 the Iranian Government sued an English art gallery seeking the return of 18 ancient jars, bowls and cups
j7Qj TIL: A Billionaire hedge fund founder payed 800 New York teachers an extra $15,000 due to poor teacher salaries
XEg7k TIL about Charles Curtis, the first and only Native American Vice President of the United States
OGjJY TIL in 2020, a judge reduced the awarded damages in a class action suit against Risperidal’s maker by a 12 person jury from $8 billion to $6.8 million (-99.915%)
lLDN TIL When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed.”