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TIL that the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas uses more electricity than the entire country of Liberia

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PYo1O TIL that the price of bread was commonly regulated across medieval Europe. As bread was essential to the lives of medieval peoples, these laws protected common people from fraudulent bakers
E1GOX TIL Royal Bank of Canada provided $3M in funding to expand artificial intelligence and data analytics programs, with a focus on answering big questions for the good of society
ZBeD TIL Nintendo tried to buy the rights to Harry Potter so that they could make games for each book in the series
E4Pw TIL that in 1980, Lake Peigneur disappeared into a salt mine due to a triangulation error of a drill site. Video footage exists of the lake sucking in barges and other things.
JDGB TIL of the Dunning-Kruger effect, that most people grossly over estimate their competence and expertise on a subject.