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TIL that the amount of energy consumed by U.S. homes for air conditioning has doubled in the past 12 years and now accounts for nearly 20 percent of our electricity use.

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5VrRp TIL that perhaps counterintuitively, defibrillators do not shock the heart to get it to beat normally- the shock actually stops the heart from beating altogether. This allows the natural automatic pacemaker of the heart to operate again and restore the heart's rhythm back to normal.
A8Ln TIL Conan O'Brien follows only one person on Twitter, a randomly chosen fan (Sarah Killen) who, since being followed in 2010, has gone from 3 to 138k followers
Z8oxQ TIL In the 1800's Germans Distorted Hindu & Buddhist Ideas Which Led to Nazism
VMdDZ TIL about the West Virginia Mine Wars; the 2nd largest insurrection in U.S. history, where miners, including former slaves, rose up against the oppression and exploitation of mine companies and the government that supported them.
loNZB TIL Swedish Painter Hilma Af Klint is considered to have invented abstract painting and was supposedly led to do so by a group of spirits called the "High Masters" that she contacted at séances. She left instructions that her work can only be displayed 20 years after her death at a special temple.