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TIL America Just Built the World’s Largest Solar Power Plant in the world

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loAQ1 TIL when in the mid-1920s Italian carmaker Diatto ceased its collaboration with engineer Alfieri Maserati, Mr. Maserati still had an unrealized design for a racecar. He decided to build that car in his family workshop, thus starting the history of the car brand Maserati.
mx9Ay TIL: Founding Father and author of the Bill of Rights James Madison stopped the Virginia Assembly from establishing Christianity as the state religion w the help of Thomas Jefferson.
RvB9 TIL: A gay couple who were front and center in media supporting same-sex adoption later adopted a baby boy for the sole purpose of molesting him and did so for six years.
LkaXd TIL about the Human Shield Action to Iraq; a group of people who traveled to Iraq to act as human shields with the aim of preventing the U.S.-led coalition forces from bombing certain locations during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
wn5o TIL a school headmaster in Britain had to resign after he announced the retirement of a teacher using acrostic writing, where the first letters of each word spell out a hidden message. His statement began “We all now know every really great teacher has to finish one day…”, spelling out ‘wanker’.