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TIL There is a music genre that romanticizes 80s shopping mall culture, called Mallsoft

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jNAER TIL the snow used in the Wizard of Oz was 100% pure asbestos.
vPGNr TIL one big obstacle standing in the way of clean energy in California is the lack of high tension power lines that can move the electricity. Developing the new grid to accommodate solar farms may take a decade.
p81gZ TIL that the Statue of Liberty’s designer was inspired by colossal statues that guarded the Abu Simbel temples in Egypt
DQw7r TIL a sheep farmer in France became a national hero, wrote a best seller book and ran for president after he took his tractor and drove it through a mcdonalds as a protest because he hated what the fast food restaurant was doing to farmers.
RXX1 TIL similar to the “Amber Alert” program, most states also have a missing persons recovery program called “Silver Alert”, which is designed to help find missing senior citizens with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or other mental disabilities.