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TIL Norway gets 99% of its electric power from hydropower
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TIL Seattle was given nearly a billion dollars in the 60s to build a subway system but never did after the voters voted against it.
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TIL Bill Nye the science guy was a student of Carl Sagan
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TIL pomeranians used to be much bigger, weighing about 40 lbs (18 kilos). Then Queen Victoria got a tiny one, which immediately became popular. By the time she died 12 years later, the size of the breed had decreased by half.
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TIL that in 2010, the Colombian government successfully transmitted a Morse message to their captive soldiers by composing a song popular enough to hit local top 40 radio and disguising the Morse Code in a synth interlude
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TIL rain on concrete or soil causes pockets of gas that were stored to be released because they get softened, which gives that familiar ‘after-rain’ smell