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TIL Ethiopia, Bhutan, Albania, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, and Costa Rica are the only countries and dependencies to have 100% renewable electricity generation

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GAXRj TIL Sloths can hold their breath up to 40-minutes underwater; Dolphins can hold it for only 20 minutes.
1aEKP TIL Architect Oscar Niemeyer and urbanist Lúcio Costa invented an urban plan for Brasilia and structures that would attempt to micromanage the daily activity of human life. The unabashed goal was to create the space that would birth “the new Brazilian citizen”
4VXX TIL the third leading cause of death in America is “preventable harm” - hospitals making mistakes. Only cancer and heart disease kill more.
Pe5E TIL in the 1970s the entire native population of an island in the Indian Ocean was forcibly removed to establish a naval base
gr8Nb TIL At the time that Atari released the home version of Pong in 1974 the computer chip the game used was the highest-performing chip used in a consumer product. It was also Sears best selling product at the time, far exceeding expectations.