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TIL Bangalore was the first city in Asia to be electrified in 1905, using hydroelectric power plants. They replaced kerosene street lamps with electric ones.

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Z8NDv TIL the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, where experts will notice all the stupid errors in a news article but still treat the next article as 100% accurate, was invented by the author Michael Crichton who named it after the famous physicist he was talking to at the time to make it sound more scientific.
aog0 TIL in 2005 Starbucks spent more on health insurance for its employees than on raw materials needed to brew its coffee.
epjBE TIL After Emperor Nero's death in 68 AD, a popular legend emerged that he would return to destroy Rome. He's believed to be the inspiration for both "the beast" and the number "666" in the bible
a6wb TIL that Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” has spent more than 800 weeks in the Billboard 200 since its release.
d8Jed TIL that the oldest military unit still in existence is the Spanish 1st regiment "Immemorial del Rey"