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TIL that the median age of a Fox News viewer is 68. 72 for the O'Reilly’s show.

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rRWgx TIL of William Kamkwamba, who taught himself to build windmills from library books. He built his first windmill, at age 15, out of junk from the scrap yard and brought power to his Malawian village. Later on he built another windmill to power water pumps to irrigate fields.
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