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TIL British power stations are burning wood from US forests to meet renewables targets

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vxy4 TIL To get Jack Nicholson in the right agitated mood in “The Shining”, movie director Stanley Kubrick fed Jack Nicholson only cheese sandwiches, which he hates.
ANR4n TIL there is a Kenyan fintech app called Okash that threatens to notify everyone on the users contact list if they fall behind on their repayments.
xVkb5 TIL that the first winner of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?' did not use any lifelines until the final question, when he called his father to tell him that he had won the million dollars
VBEAp TIL that Jill Ellis is the only coach - women or men - to win the World Cup as a foreign coach. Every prior winning coach has had the same nationality as the winning country.
5dgB TIL while most of Noah Webster’s ‘Americanized’ spellings (such as 'center’ and 'color’) caught on, some did not, such as his changing of 'tongue’ to 'tung’.