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TIL that the band A-ha helped start Norway’s electric car revolution

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R4d9 TIL Director Eli Roth brought a TV with him to the Peruvian jungle to show villagers the movie ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ - It was the first movie they’d ever seen and they loved it
4kbdR TIL in the 1340s Oxford had an estimated murder rate of roughly 110 murders per 100,000 people, and in the 14th-century, London's murder rate varied between 36-52 per 100,000 people. By comparison, the 2020 murder rate for Britain was around 1 per 100,000 people.
MebZA TIL cashews are in the same family as poison ivy and they cannot be sold in their shells because they can cause a similar itchy skin reaction due to a chemical called urushiol
gM078 TIL the thousands of monkeys in the Lopburi province of Thailand are split in two gangs: temple and city monkeys. The monkeys rely on tourists for food but due to the lack of tourism, the monkeys are starving and have taken to waging large scale 'gang wars' over as little as a single banana.
pNPe TIL That 3% of the total power in California is used to grow indoor cannabis.