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TIL the Jimmy Carter Administration installed Solar Panels on the White House to heat water, then the Ronald Reagan Administration took them down and cut tax credits to renewable energy research.

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b87N TIL Macarons and Macaroons are different things. Macarons are meringue-based cookies with a crunchy exterior and a weightless interior. Macaroons (usually coconut) are moist and dense, and sometimes dipped in chocolate.
l7vD7 TIL: That scam baiters managed to trick Nigerian scammers into traveling 1400 miles and left them stranded in Darfur in a warzone.
y87p TIL Pope Francis has a master’s degree in chemistry
wLgV6 TIL that according to a 2014 Pew Poll, 23% of Americans who identify as libertarians have no idea what the word means
Z8QBv TIL about Mariano Martinez. A man who in 1971 modified an ice cream machine to create the first frozen margarita machine. He did this to meet demand for a popular margarita recipe he was serving at the time. You can find his invention on display at the Smithsonian Museum for American history.