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TIL Norway gets 99% of its electric power from hydropower

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R5pP9 TIL David Beckham was born in 'Whipps Cross Hospital'. In football, to 'whip a cross' is a term for playing a particular type of pass which Beckham was known for being exceptional at.
6ENQY TIL that there is a hypothetical undiscovered planet in our solar system, 10x bigger than Earth
7Bep TIL Crayola has crayons named Shocking Pink, Pink Flamingo, Carnation Pink, Tickle Me Pink, Pink Sherbet, and Piggy Pink, but no crayon just named ‘Pink’.
0dJBR TIL about Terence Tao, a prodigious mathematician often dubbed the 'Mozart of Mathematics' and considered the greatest living mathematician. Tao, who boasts a 230 IQ, began university-level math at age 9 and has won the prestigious Fields Medal
LQW4P TIL of a folk song called “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore”. A Black gospel song first sung by former slaves whose owners had abandoned them on the sea Islands by South Carolina. The boat symbolises a way to freedom from the tyrannies of slavery