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TIL 50% of Germany’s energy production is solar power

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RaAw TIL that thanks to a 1997 Texas law, astronauts can vote from space on Election Day (via secure email to Johnson Space Center).
JY59k TIL a model spotted his face on a jar of instant coffee 16 years after a photo shoot and won $15.6 million.
0dyEp TIL that the probability of a blue lobster existing is widely touted as being one in two million. Bright blue lobsters are so-coloured because of a genetic abnormality that causes them to produce more of a certain protein than others.
GYydg TIL in the 1970s on Sesame Street, Herve Villechaize better known as Tattoo from Fantasy Island, performed Oscar the Grouch as a pair of legs peeping out from a trash can for scenes which required the Grouch to be mobile.
bMJp TIL that in 2010 we started to receive radio waves from an unknown object in the nearby galaxy m82. The radio emission is unidentifiable and doesn’t look like anything seen before