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

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DQdjY TIL that Matthias Erzberger, who helped negotiate the armistice that ended the First World War, was assassinated at a spa in 1921 by former members of the Imperial German Navy,
X01yr TIL that the Illuminati conspiracy was invented in the 60s by some hippie anarchist Playboy writers as a social experiment/hoax and that they thought no one would ever believe something so absurd as a Bavarian secret society controlling the world...
5YNDP TIL the Soviet Union successfully put out a gas well fire that was burning for 1074 days with a underground nuke
R58lj TIL American citizens eat more than 124 kg of meat annually - the equivalent of half a cow and 50 chickens for each person each year
D1JMv TIL that R2-D2 and C-3PO appear as hieroglyphics in the backround of scenes in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."