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TIL Norway gets 99% of its electric power from hydropower

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LRVQ TIL Calgary police returned a woman’s stolen car to her with illegal items from the thieves the police forgot to seize: a gun, knife, lead pipe, crack pipe, a bag of cocaine, and 4 IDs.
Orb7 TIL that the ancient Greeks used the term barbarian for anyone who didn’t speed Greek, including ancient Egyptians, as another language sounded like ‘bar bar bar’ to the Greeks which lead to the term 'barbarian’
16g9r TIL in 2020 the Royal Australian Mint released a "Donation Dollar" coin specifically designed to be donated. Six million of them have been issued so far, and research shows over 60% of people finding them donate them, resulting in an estimated $1.9 million donated to charities and people in need.
0dROp TIL The sign commemorating Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy who was killed in 1955 by two white men in Mississippi, had to be replaced with a bulletproof one because it had been repeatedly vandalized—first stolen, then shot at, then shot at again leaving it riddled with bullet holes
5YBZD TIL that Phosphorous is a major mineral nutrient and the global reserve would be depleted within the next 50 to 100 years