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

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Z8GMY TIL McDonalds lost their Big Mac trademark in the European Union after a legal battle with the Supermac's fast food chain in Ireland.
E4od TIL ‘Darling’ means 'favourite minion’.
nw8P TIL Lewis Lee Millett deserted the US Army when he thought they would not enter WW2 and joined the Canadian Army to fight. After the US Army joined WW2 he transferred back. In the Korean war he would be awarded the Medal Of Honor for leading the last major bayonet charge in American history.
N7lEN TIL that the discoverer of radio frequency, Heinrich Hertz, did not think his discovery was practically useful in any application.
NXyvP TIL a man received a letter from the Oregon Employment Department that stated he was fired from The Home Depot because he "assisted the police in preventing a kidnapping". It was posted on social media and covered by national news. Home Depot leadership reversed the decision and offered him back pay