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TIL switching to a national electricity grid instead of 130 regional grids would save $47 billion yearly and make utilization of solar energy more efficient

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5Y94B TIL "Macho Man" Randy Savage's first wrestling character was called "The Spider", based off of Spider-Man. He would later star as the villian wrestler "Bone Saw" in The Amazing Spiderman movie.
XnOR TIL that Big Boi from OutKast, as a child, would throw candy parties where he’d charge kids to come to his house and eat candy all day. He would DJ it.
GYAZJ TIL in 2008 David Spade gave $100,000 to the Phoenix Police Department toward the purchase of rifles for patrol officers
Egxv7 TIL that cousin marriage is more like "a norm" than a "taboo/exception" and only half of the US states ban it.
05E5 TIL that of the 196 countries in the world, 59 of them gained independence from the United Kingdom.