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TIL TV stations used to shut down for the night

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Adjg TIL Cuba has a 99.7% literacy rate
wLZvE TIL that in 1999, 40 million people suddenly lost power in the Philippines, igniting fears of a possible military coup, only to find out that the cooling pipes of one power grid had sucked up 50 dump truck’s worth of jellyfish which caused the outage.
xVZDk TIL that in rural areas of late 19th & early 20th century America, it was the norm for the sheriff’s family residence and the jail to share adjacent spaces
Z8e5G TIL that Disneyland has its own color called "Go Away Green", a shade designed to help unsightly things blend in with the landscaping. Go Away Green is a gray-green (and kinda bluish) shade, tested and formulated to blend in well among almost anything: concrete, landscaping, the sky, you name it.
5YY6p Never. We're probably stuck with our appendix, pinky toes, tailbone and just about all of our other evolutionary holdovers.