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TIL one big obstacle standing in the way of clean energy in California is the lack of high tension power lines that can move the electricity. Developing the new grid to accommodate solar farms may take a decade.

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Br11e TIL in 1913 Milunka Savić joined the Serbian army in her brother’s place-cutting her hair and donning men’s clothes. According to a Serbian source, she may be the most-decorated female combatant in the entire history of warfare.
dAjQ TIL Evel Knievel sued Kanye West over damage to his reputation from the ‘Touch the Sky’ music video.
m1Yy TIL a woman disguised herself as a man for 18 months to write a book on gender. After the experiment, she was institutionalized for depression, and stated that she never felt so glad for being a woman.
wooV7 Til that: When the Butzke family fled Austria in 1940, they sewed valuables into their son's teddy bear. When German soldiers tried to take the bear, the boy screamed until it was thrown back at him. The valuables helped them start a new life when they immigrated to the U.S
bBnN TIL the German word for ‘birth control pill’ is 'antibabypille’