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

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wLGNJ TIL "Spotlight effect" is a feeling in which you overthink that you are being continuously observed, noticed, and judged by others (like walking into a room full of people or participating in a meeting discussion). The effect arises from being extremely self-conscious about what others may think.
vP4EK TIL of the "D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm", where codenames related to the Operation Overlord plans appeared as solutions in crosswords in the British newspaper.
wojQo TIL when The Beatles split up in April 1970, Paul and George were still only 27 years old
wLwPP TIL: Obesity is associated with job absenteeism and lower productivity at work costing employers $506 per obese employee per year.
VMaMm TIL the Vietnamese word for honey, "mật ông," is widely accepted by linguists to be related to the English word "mead," as the Vietnamese word came from Chinese, which in turn, got it from the now-extinct Indo-European Tocharian language once spoken in present-day NW China.