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TIL that as of 2008, Christmas lights in the U.S. use more electricity over the holidays than entire countries' annual usage: 6.63 billion kWh

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7wgL TIL Converse Sneakers have felt on the bottom because that classifies them as slippers, which have a lower tariff.
loew7 TIL At the end of WW1 in 1918, when revolutionaries toppled the monarchy all across Germany, King Friedrich August III of Saxony was asked by phone if he would like to abdicate willingly. He just replied "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better" and thus Saxony became a republic.
0wkjM TIL that in the 1962 World Cup, the Chilean team ate Swiss cheese before beating Switzerland, spaghetti before beating Italy, and drank vodka before beating the USSR. Then they drank coffee before their match against Brazil but lost.
6E8LJ TIL Because she supported the Civil Rights movement, the FBI created a fake story that actress Jean Seberg had cheated on her husband with a black man, the stress of the fake story caused her to go into labor premature and resulted in the death of her baby.
4kom5 TIL Montana holds the world record for temperature change in a 24 hour period