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TIL the Kemper County energy facility - an experimental ‘clean coal’ power plant has been in construction since 2010, scheduled to be online in 2014 and is still uncompleted, after being 295% over original budget.

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kJy1 TIL the movie Hugo released in 2011 cured a person’s stereo-blindness.
9wY86 TIL in 1918, the German Army ordered a Jewish census of it's troops to prove that Jews avoided combat. Instead, the census proved the opposite that Jews were over-represented in fighting positions and in the army as a whole.
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