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TIL California accounted for nearly half of the U.S. solar electricity generating capacity in 2015

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gaVL TIL that hedgehogs used to get their heads stuck in McFlurry containers until McDonald’s changed them in 2006
R7Lnj TIL That in 1957 Little Richard saw a bright red fireball flying across the sky, which he took as "sign from God" to repent from performing secular music and his wild lifestyle at the time until 1962. The fireball actually was the launching of the first artificial Earth satellite Sputnik 1.
Z8gYp TIL:1885 the King of Belgium established a fake charity & got international agreement to let it have control of an India-sized chunk of Africa. For years he fooled the world that he was helping Africans, while he was really enslaving people & made roughly $1 billion. At least two million people died
78laX TIL the 2005 NASA Authorization Act established the ISS National Lab on the US segment of the International Space Station. This act opened up the station for academic, private and government access to many of the space stations research facilities.
Epe0 TIL a comedian accidently became a politician in Denmark when his joke political party managed to get a seat in parliament.