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TIL A solar plant in the Mojave Desert generates so much heat it incinerates birds in mid flight

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KY0e6 TIL about the 1983 video game recession in which US video game revenue plummeted from $3.2B in 1983 to $100m in 1985. Nintendo is credited with reviving the industry with the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).
W7xdN TIL that the first woman to serve in the United States Senate was also the last member of Congress to be a slaveowner.
rNaKo TIL that the origin of "zombies" was brought by enslaved people from Africa to Haiti, where eventually voodoo priests (also enslaved and whose jobs were to control other enslaved) would use the fear of zombification to discourage suicide.
VBwm0 TIL that in 1938 the Chinese government deliberately destroyed the dikes of the Yellow River in order to cause a flood with the aim of slowing the Imperial Japanese Army and in the process killed up to 900,000 Chinese civilians, created millions of refugees and destroyed thousands of villages
OGVWa TIL that Neanderthals ate dolphins and horses