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TIL The Boeing 737 Jet Engine generates about 20 Terabytes of information per hour

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EKWo TIL Gramin Shakti, a non-profit organization in Bangladesh provided solar panels for 1.5 million homes. 5 years later, the World Bank invested in less than a fraction of that, and received credit for Bangladesh’s solar revolution.
woEgE TIL that the US government actually poisoned alcohol during prohibition
YpJWx TIL that in WWII, John T. "Mike" Wolf joined the navy to become a pilot. Even though he had poor eyesight, he passed his physical when the doctor got distracted and forgot to give him the eye exam. Lt. Wolf went on to become a highly decorated fighter pilot ace, shooting down 7 Japanese planes.
bQo0 TIL from 1908–1940, Sears sold 75,000 homes through their mail-order “Modern Homes” program. There were 447 different housing styles to choose from.
GNoN TIL: In an act of pure humanitarianism more than 200 elderly Japanese volunteered to help clean up after the Fukushima nuclear disaster reducing the exposure of radiation to the younger generation.