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TIL that Iceland’s electricity is produced entirely from renewable energy sources (hydroelectric 70% and geothermal 30%)

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N5BQ TIL the Western African gorilla’s scientific name is Gorilla gorilla, including a lowland subspecies named Gorilla gorilla gorilla
rNKjx TIL Moses Fleetwood walker is historically credited with being the first Black man to play in major league baseball in the 1884 season.
ZpYyB TIL that Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's wife, died from severe burns in 1997 after her 12-year-old grandson, Malcolm Shabazz (later murdered in 2013), set fire to the apartment.
9E0Q TIL that King Tut’s beard was broken off by museum workers, who glued it back on. The mistake wasn’t discovered until months later.
Z8OLQ TIL that H G Wells’ War of the Worlds was inspired by how the immeasurably technologically superior English massacred the natives of Tasmania, Australia in taking that land.