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TIL that in 1925, a recently independent Ireland spent the one fifth of it’s annual budget on a Hydro-Electric Plant in efforts to modernize the country. At it’s peak it provided 96% of Ireland’s electricity - today it provides 2%.

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W7wkd TIL about Miki Matsubara, a Japanese composer, lyricist, and singer who destroyed all her sheet music and albums when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2000. She told those around her, "Please live your life without regrets."
oRNmo TIL the scientist in Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Scientist" really is a scientist -- Dolby hired UK nutritional scientist Dr. Magnus Pike to record the dialog
oB188 TIL the birds in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie ‘The Birds’ were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much instead of flying away
DVpj TIL that some homosexual concentration camp prisoners were forced to serve out the remainder of their sentences after liberation and end of WW2
NXMa1 TIL Thomas Crapper did not invent the toilet or use of the word “crap” but he did work as a sanitation engineer and his toilets are probably responsible for the use of the phrase “going to the crapper.”