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TIL the small country of Costa Rica ran 300 days out of 100% renewable energy

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N7ePN TIL the United States is not even in the top 10 most obese countries
Mebj8 TIL that Ofcom (the regulator for TV, radio etc in the UK) keeps a list of swearwords ranked into categories of offensiveness. It include words like minger (mild), bollocks (medium), beef curtains (strong), and c*nt (strongest).
G9y7 TIL in 2005, Rob Schneider ripped critic Patrick Goldstein for panning Deuce Bigalow 2, stating Goldstein was unqualified to judge when he had never even been awarded by his peers. Roger Ebert’s response? “As chance would have it, I have won the Pulitzer Prize… Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks”.
9YPlB TIL one of the first radio communications from an aircraft in flight was "Roy, come and get this goddamn cat.”
JaaV TIL seven million dependents “disappeared” in 1987 when the IRS started requiring social security numbers for dependents.