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TIL The White House had solar heating panels back in 1979

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0wPBM TIL that Jerome Bixby, the screenwriter of 'the man from earth' took over 50 years to finish the script.
EWOp TIL Congress tried to pass a “American Hippo bill” in 1910 to authorize the importation and release of hippopotamus into Louisiana to help solve the American meat crisis, described as “lake cow bacon”
kQgW TIL Bananas release one positron every 75 minutes. The antimatter equivalent of electrons. This is due to decaying potassium-40.
0d1jL TIL sticky rice was used in the brick mortar during the construction of the Great Wall of China and is one of the factors that has kept it standing for so long!
gr7n9 TIL that George Washington had two stepchildren but no biological children