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TIL the Walmart heirs are funding an anti-solar campaign.

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P151L TIL Puducherry District encompasses all Former French territories - Yanam, Mahe, Karaikal and Pondicherry - that are spread all over South India as exclaves
6EYYm TIL Northern Hemisphere rainwater still contains 3x as much radioactive tritium than Southern Hemisphere rainwater due to atmospheric nuclear bomb tests from the 1960s
D7yJ TIL that it’s common during TV showings of “Groundhog Day” to repeat the same six commercials for each ad break (referencing the movie’s phenomenon)
WkpL8 TIL Boring in Oregon twinned with Dull in Scotland, then added Bland in Australia to become the Trinity of Tedium
l7WG7 TIL On August 9, 1942, a starving orchestra performed Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60, in besieged Leningrad during WWII, using music as an act of defiance against Nazi forces.