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TIL Norway gets 99% of its electric power from hydropower

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NX098 TIL: before the 2014 movie Interstellar, black holes were depicted in media as spinning whirlpools in space, but the movie used a team of physicists to determine how a black hole would look to the human eye
J1Ddk TIL that the Great Indian Bustard was a prime candidate for the National bird of India, but was sidelined due to fear of misspelling it as the Great Indian Bastard!
WkoQA TIL in World War I, deep fried potato batons were popular among American soldiers stationed in Belgian after they were served to the British for their love of chips. As, the language locally and of the Belgian Army at the time was French, they thought they were in France naming them ‘French fries’.
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