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TIL 30% of the power produced in india gets lost due to the outdated electricity grid

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OEMa TIL of Crab Mentality; when a bunch of crabs are in a bucket, they could easily escape by themselves. However, the fellow crabs pull each other down so no one can escape.
R5RJ8 TIL that tar was used in 9th-century Baghdad, which had streets paved with tar, derived from petroleum that became accessible from natural fields in the region.
N7Xe8 TIL that the US Navy traditionally named ammunition ships after volcanoes or words relating to fire and explosions
epNXD TIL that the psychological phenomenon of recalling the past more positively than it was actually experienced is called Rosy Retrospection
6EDj8 TIL the number of stay-at-home dads in the US actually dropped after 2010 - it went from 2.2 million in 2010 to 2 million in 2014.