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TIL that China's Ultra High Voltage "Electricity Highway" project spans 40,000 km: one second of power transmission over 1500km away is enough to sustain a household for two years

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16G87 TIL Anissa Weier, one of the Slenderman Stabbers was released from a mental hospital after serving 7yrs for attempted first degree intentional homicide. Her accomplice, Morgan Geyser withdrew her request for early release. Weier was sentenced to up to 25yrs in a psychiatric hospital.
KOvlG TIL the big-headed turtle of SE Asia has a skull of solid bone that is so large in proportion to its body that it cannot be withdrawn into its shell for protection. It has legs covered with large scales and a tail that is very long and muscular, the longest tail relative to body size of any turtle.
QND1E TIL Trained Dogs Can Sniff Out Lung Cancer up to 97%
1G0d TIL there was a man still alive in 1963 who had viewed Abraham Lincoln in an open casket.
grgb7 TIL that tumbleweed is not native to the Americas, first appearing in South Dakota in the 1870s when a shipment of flaxseed from Russia was contaminated.