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TIL that electricity prices can drop below zero in Europe
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TIL a sign language interpreter in the Ukraine courageously defied state censors in 2004 by signing to her deaf viewers the true winner of the presidential election.
5Ly9
TIL Green Eggs and Ham was banned in China for allegedly supporting Communism, having references to bestiality, and because the ham looked like a penis
VB4Mk
TIL that in 2000, scientists revived a bacteria believed to be 250 million years old found buried 1,850 feet underground in New Mexico
mOmx
TIL: During the civil war, after amputation of limbs from injury, surgeons would pull out the nerves as far as possible before cutting them, so they would shrink back up to there origin. This would prevent pain later, but was usually done under no anesthetic.
xDb
TIL that Huntington, West Virginia, a city of 50,000, has more pizza places than there are gyms in the entire state.