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TIL that electricity prices can drop below zero in Europe
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TIL about Maundy Money. In Britain, the day before Good Friday, the reigning monarch personally gives elderly parishioners a specially struck set of coins (with their combined value adding up to the monarch’s age). Recipients are chosen based on their service to the church or their diocese.
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TIL The first observatory discovered in the Americas is the Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex. It is a prehistoric site (250-200 BC), located on the north-central coast of Peru, in the Casma Valley.
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TIL that in a 1973 new conference in Poland, US President Jimmy Carter’s words were mistranslated to, “I desire the Poles carnally”, creeping out an entire nation.
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TIL following the US entry into WWI in 1917, a wave of anti-German sentiment swept across the nation. This sentiment manifested in acts of aggression towards Dachshund dogs, with disturbing reports emerging of some being targeted and even killed by enraged mobs.
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TIL Mexico passed a law that requires food packages to display large black octagonal "warnings" if the product is high in sugar, sodium, calories, or unhealthy fats.