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TIL the amount of electricity running the Bitcoin Network could power 1.3 million homes.

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R7v8w TIL that the US bombed the South indiscriminately with pesticides to try to eradicate fire ants but instead killed native insects and birds that otherwise would have kept them in control
p8kXO TIL a Sioux tribe filed a federal lawsuit against a 10-person town in Nebraska in an attempt to reduce the amount of beer that was coming onto the reservation, about 13, 000 cans per day.
7Ljp TIL of the dramatic device “Chekhov’s Gun”. “Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
A1ma TIL: 2% of Maryland Crabs are from Maryland
D1mkV TIL the faces on Mount Rushmore are only 60ft tall.