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TIL that Texas has it's own separate electrical grid from the rest of the US. This was done for political purposes so that they didn't have to deal with Federal regulations.

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OoXJL Today I learned: Extremely out of date bananas are superior to fresh Bananas in a smoothie. Overall taste is amplified with the sweetness from the stale(but perfectly Safe) banana. The texture also becomes a lot smoother thus increasing the overall smoothie experience.
b6JeQ TIL In 1972, the founder of NORML bought a print of Reefer Madness from the Library of Congress for $297. He showed the film across campuses in California, charging $1 for admission, and raised over $16,000 ($112,000 in 2022) for the California Marijuana Initiative.
1Nm8 TIL Bill Shepherd, first Commander of the International Space Station, was a Navy SEAL selected as astronaut. When asked what he does best in his astronaut interview, he said: “Kill people with a knife”
P1anE TIL that 4 US presidents - Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley, all worked for the same company, which is still alive today and listed on Nasdaq
78ZaP TIL about the 2010 book "Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer" and that Mattell apologized for the book after extensive online criticism because Barbie had her male friends code the game she was designing and that her male friends fixed Skipper's computer that Barbie had infected with a virus