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TIL there is a company that is building solar roads, which can cheaply and effectively replace the power and communitcations grid.

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R7DA1 TIL The term pizza was first recorded in the 10th century in a Latin manuscript from the Southern Italian town of Gaeta, several hundred years before tomatoes arrived in Italy.
D1b0J TIL of Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates: born in South Carolina the black son of a sharecropper in 1907, he danced on the street for coins as a child, lost his leg at 12, taught himself to tap-dance afterwards, was competing in talent shows by 15, on Broadway by 20 and performing for royalty by 30.
QJrYk TIL the United States, under Reagan, forced both Japan and Germany to sign the Plaza Accord. The agreement that would depreciate the Dollars at the costs of Yen and Mark appreciating greatly. This decision utterly destroyed Japan’s economy in the 1990s and beyond.
8RQZ TIL the hull of the USS Arizona has been leaking oil since the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
NmJN TIL that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein published a best-selling romance novel that spawned a twenty-episode TV series and a stage musical.