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TIL Texas Overtakes California as Leader in Solar Power Installations

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oDQ7 TIL: There are no qualifications to be a Justice on the United States Supreme Court; you don’t even have to be a lawyer.
kOl9e TIL that one of the main characters (Woody) from Pixar’s Toy Story has a last name: Woody Pride
R7BGw TIL that government in Japan runs dating ads in which they tell the women what kind of stocking to wear and even at what angle to tilt your head when looking at a man to attract him
rNNRM TIL of Commander James H. Ward, the first US Naval officer to be killed in the American Civil War. A destroyer named after him fired the first American shots of the Pacific Theater in WW2, sinking a Japanese submarine. Actor Andy Devine is his great-grandson.
M7QBm TIL The often repeated story that European Starlings were introduced to the United States as part of a Shakespeare in the Park celebration in 1890 is almost entirely fiction. Dozens of organizations were importing and introducing the birds across the US and Canada for decades prior.