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TIL starting in 2017 San Francisco will require new buildings to have solar panels

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BgBxd TIL 'America' was first used to for South America, named for Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci
l7ZEV TIL Beef was rarely eaten in ancient China, as cows & bulls were used mostly for transportation. Only nobility could eat beef- but only if the animal died naturally or from old age.
P1LAw TIL smoking is still allowed in bars in Indiana
W7BvN TIL that The Gambia and Tobago were colonised by the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia - now part of Latvia. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Latvian Duchy was unable to hold on to its colonial possessions for very long.
xVdoD TIL of Theodore Hall, among the youngest Manhattan Project scientists. Finished high school at 14, graduated from Harvard at 18, and recruited for the nuclear program at 19. Fifty years later, near death, he admitted to having been a Soviet informant the entire time.