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TIL there are currently over 20 countries at war
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TIL of the California Fur Rush, which occurred in the early to mid 19th century. It happened due to large beaver and otter populations and helped open up the West and especially the San Francisco area to world trade. However, this drove many mammal populations to the brink of extinction.
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TIL that Hedy Lamarr, an exotic actress from Vienna in the 1940s had patented a wireless communications technology that wasn’t rediscovered by scientists until 1997, her ideas weren’t taken seriously at the time because she was a woman
VMPLB
TIL that one of Oklahoma's most notable landmarks came into being, literally by accident. A cement truck rolled over on its side on Winganon Road years ago, and because the mixer was full of concrete and too heavy to move, it has since been turned into a faux NASA space capsule by artists.
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TIL Thomas Edison coined the term "Bug" when a machine doesn't work decades before Grace Hopper found a dead moth in a computer in the 1940s, which is where most people attribute its origins to.
MnPb
TIL Texas is by far the No. 1 producer of wind energy in the United States; if it were its own country, Texas would be the fourth-largest largest wind-producing country in the world by the end of 2017.