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

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P41J TIL Rice Paddy art is an art form originating in Japan where people plant rice of various types and colors to create a giant pictures in a paddy field.
mmlp TIL in 2007, the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador was recalled after being found outside the Embassy drunk, hands tied, wearing only a corset bondage gear, and with a cucumber inserted into his rectum. The police only discovered his identity after removing the ball gag from his mouth.
ANOE7 TIL The largest illegal dump in Europe is the Triangle of Death in Naples, Italy. As the landfills filled up in the 1990s organised crime increasingly dumped and burned trash in this area, driving in garbage as far away as Venice. The area's population has significantly higher rates of cancer.
NXxEb TIL Some dogs are set off into a panic attack at the smell of cooking lamb
95lB TIL that Bob Marley’s father, Norval Marley, was a white English man. Working as an overseer on a Jamaican plantation, he impregnated the singer’s African mother when he was 60 and she was just 17 years old