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TIL that Australia has renewable energy potential of 10,000 MAH per person, can be ‘battery of the world,’ new report finds.

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MebpB TIL that the work quarantine comes from the Italian word “quaranta” which means 40. This was the number of days sailors on a ship with a suspected infection had to stay in port before they were allowed on land.
yLZM TIL the ATF set up a sting operation during which they hired and then arrested a mentally retarded man, allowed armed felons to leave the store, arrested four of the wrong people, paid such high prices for guns that people sold them to the agents at a profit, and eventually got burglarized.
LB7Q TIL; That when you are born and take your first breath, the pressure change in your lungs causes a valve between the two atria in your heart to close and eventually fuse. When this doesn’t happen correctly a baby can have a hole in their heart, but initially everyone had the same hole.
b6elZ TIL of the Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo, a hereditary title of Spanish nobility held by a line of descendants of Moctezuma II. Since 1766, the title has been attached to a place of peerage, considered to be the highest honor, held currently by Juan José Marcilla de Teruel-Moctezuma y Valcárcel.
awZ1L TIL French courts have the ability to stop parents giving ‘inappropriate’ names to their children: in 2015 they ordered that a girl should be called ‘Ella’ and not ‘Nutella’ as originally intended.