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TIL Australians use nearly twice as much coal per person than Americans and five times as much as the rest of the world.

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eEML TIL if your cell phone reaches a speed of 1,200mph and an altitude of over 60,000ft, the built-in GPS will disable itself. This is due to a Government regulation that prevents the GPS feature in the device being used in a guided missile.
VMep TIL George Koval: Soviet master spy that infiltrated the Manhattan project, stole nearly all of our nuclear secrets, single-handedly provided the key technology for Russia’s nuclear arsenal, and was only discovered as a spy in 2002.
awPPy TIL that New Zealand was founded on May 7, 1856.
neRM9 TIL a full-on naval battle was fought in Lake Erie between the US and Britain
R5Dn1 TIL that the disco-pop group Boney M was a project of white German singer and the black guy was hired to lipsync only for marketing reasons.