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TIL that over 99% of the electricity produced in Norway is renewable and clean

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b8M9 TIL there is a Penny Lobby in the United States to keep the one cent coin in circulation even though it is produced at a loss. The lobby was hired by Jardin Zinc Products, who is the sole provider of penny blanks to the U.S. Government.
KAw TIL Jim Henson made hilariously violent muppet-like coffee commercials back in the 1950s
9wPPX TIL that children that live with a step-parent are up to 40x more likely to suffer from child abuse.
VBkBG TIL The Nobel Prize committee has never rescinded the prize given to Egas Moniz for the invention of lobotomies
PYoYO TIL in 1969 LIFE magazine published a cover story called “The Faces Of The American Dead In Vietnam: One Week’s Toll.” Page after page of images of young men, 242 of them, killed in seven days of fighting the war in Vietnam.