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TIL that Woodrow Wilson is the only president of the United States to have earned a Ph.D

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oGgo TIL that cost for solar has decreased from $101.05 per watt in 1975 to $0.447 per watt in August of 2016. The cheapest bid for unsubsidized solar is 2.42¢/kWh—cheaper per kWh than natural gas, coal, or nuclear power can provide practically anywhere in the world.
ne5lW TIL the first commercial fax service, between Lyon and Paris France in 1865, by Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli, was created 11 years before the invention of the telephone.
dvXj TIL - The French proposed the use of ‘Decimal’ time, with 10 hours in a day, and 100 minutes in an hour, etc.
gkOD TIL a New Jersey politician was indicted for accepting $360,000 in bribes. The politician went so far to avoid his conviction that he faked his own death by friends saying he swallowed pain pills before a scuba dive and ‘never resurfaced’. He was found 2 years later and arrested while scuba diving.
OojeL TIL half of the Moon is always illuminated by our star.