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TIL black people actually ARE much less likely to tip.

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Wjy4 TIL that the FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to numerous reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the Midwest in an ice cream truck.”
wMrE TIL Sweden was the first to find out about the censored Chernobyl accident when one of the workers at the Forsmark power plant set off evacuation alarms when he had walked through grass that had been contaminated from radioactive rain picked up from Chernobyl over 800 miles away.
l7B95 TIL that the biggest solar installation in the city of Perth (Australia) is at the city zoo. It powers 30% of the site and has panels on top of areas like the parking lot, elephant barn and reptile house.
dKgK TIL goats scream just like humans (yes, exactly like in the Doritos super bowl commercial).
LkNRQ TIL the USA annually uses more electricity on air conditioning than every African country combined uses on everything.