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TIL 47% of Americans do not put a single penny out of their paychecks into savings

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nXjW TIL: Wind has a higher eroei (energy returned on energy invested) than nuclear. And solar has a higher eroei than fracking.
6X7J TIL that someone in Utah made a full scale real life version of the house from the Pixar’s movie ‘Up’
gr7E4 TIL that Tracey Ullman, whose self-titled show is the show that originally spawned The Simpsons, is the first British woman with her own American sketch show.
ADGeg TIL many islands are connected to the internet by just one undersea cable. Most of these cables aren't buried, they just lay on the bottom of the ocean. In 2019, the entire Island of Tonga had no internet for 13 days due to their cable accidentally getting cut by an oil tanker.
LkMW9 TIL that the Walls of Benin were the largest man-made structure on earth, with a length of 16,000 km (four times longer than the Wall of China), until their destruction by the British in 1897. Building it consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops.