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TIL that South Korea opened the first recycled Hydrogen power plant in the world,

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d8ZBQ TIL that in the 1984 U.S. Presidential Election, Walter Mondale won only one state - Minnesota, his home state. Ronald Reagan won the other 49.
Z8nrG TIL that the most common last name among American physicians is no longer "Smith", it's "Patel".
L9D0 TIL That in 1984, in response to protests outside the Libyan embassy in London, machine gun fire was turned on protesters on the street from inside the embassy, hitting 11 people and killing a police officer. This lead to an armed siege of the embassy by police and breaking of diplomatic relations.
1aKKP TIL: The first person to set foot on the North Pole was an African-American man named Matthew Henson.
LkxgQ TIL the first known decorated eggs are 60,000 years old. These ostrich eggshells, discovered in South Africa, were likely used as water flasks. Many were engraved and colored black, beige, yellow, orange, teal and even bright red.