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

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78yRp TIL the term 'jaywalking' was promoted and popularized by the automobile industry to blame pedestrians for traffic issues
Z8A6Y TIL that plankton produces 50-85% of the worlds oxygen.
b9Qgp TIL that all modern horses are likely descended from a single male ancestor. Wild stallions were aggressive and untamable, so he was probably a timid stallion for whom domestication was the only chance to get laid.
BrbaW TIL most of singer Avril Lavigne's family comes from France and the small town of Saint-Jérôme in the French part of Canada, and her name "Avril" is the word for the month of April in French.
VBwR8 TIL Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who started the persecution of Catholics, died in 1616 and for many centuries it was believed to be from over-eating tempura, a dish invented by Catholics during Lent while they were visiting Japan in 1543, which was the same year the Shogun had been born. (Maybe Cancer)