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TIL Norway gets 99% of its electric power from hydropower

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ADOvw TIL there is a National Hot Dog & Sausage Council which provides guidelines on proper hot dog-eating etiquette. Ketchup is forbidden after the age of 18.
nB5b TIL Jewish composer Irving Berlin struggled to pen a Christmas song for the film Holiday Inn. Finally finishing “White Christmas”, he supposedly said “Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it’s the best song anybody ever wrote!” Bing Crosby’s 1947 record is the bestselling single…of ALL TIME.
MYaW TIL that Diana Ross, who sang “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” lost her ex-husband to a mountain climbing accident years later.
7rL67 TIL that Passenger pigeons, now extinct, once migrated across North America in flocks of up to several billion birds. In 1866, one flock in southern Ontario was described as being 1.5 km wide and 500 km long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds.
JYXav TIL of the Battle of Hainan Island (Chinese Civil War). The Communists conducted a successful landing operation using 2000 traditional wooden junks. This led the KMT Navy to underestimate them and tried to capture them, only for the junks to reveal artillery pieces, forcing a KMT Destroyer to flee.