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TIL Over 77,000 people in Rwanda may get out of poverty thanks to a simple solar program

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xVb8D TIL Approximately 80 percent of current US astronauts wears eye correction (i.e. glasses or contact lenses). As long as the astronauts' vision is correctable to 20/20, they're allowed to fly
Wk84A TIL that the first team to ever have players’ last names on the back of team jerseys was the Chicago White Sox in 1960.
699gw TIL about Fred Baur, an American organic chemist known for designing the Pringles container and method of packaging the chips. At his request, some of his ashes were buried in an Original Flavor Pringles container.
DQ5YY TIL Germans refer to cell phones as 'handys'
vBE4 TIL that of the 112 deaths during the construction of the Hoover dam. The first was J.G.Tierney, a surveyor who drowned on December 20, 1922. His son, Patrick, was the last man to die working on the dam’s construction, 13 years to the day later.