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TIL California has mandated all new homes to be energy neutral which is the equivalent of LEED Zero Carbon certification.

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4Gm6 TIL The man who invented the technology Thermos used to keep liquids hot or cold never patented his invention. Despite the vast commercial success of his invention within his own lifetime, he died having never profited from it at all.
Oo96a TIL Kurt Cobain was originally going to play Lance the drug dealer in Pulp Fiction
87lZ TIL anyone with internet access can help scientists classify the shape of galaxies imaged by Hubble in a citizen scientist project.
AN14w TIL Crosswalk "push to walk" buttons in cities like New York no longer control traffic lights, yet pedestrians keep pressing them because it feels like control
jVnQ TIL that when the New York Sun was relaunched in 2002, its first edition carried the solution to the last crossword puzzle that the earlier Sun published before it folded in 1950.