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TIL Of the top 20 most productive power stations in the world, there are only 3 fossil fuel plants and most (including the top 5) are hydro.

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9dp6 TIL that in Bangalore, India, the government shames property tax defaulters by sending drummers to makes noise and wave banners outside of their properties until they pay their taxes.
LVXP TIL that kid computers in the 80’s to mid 90’s came with BASIC computer program training, because people worried that every citizen needed to know computer programming or they would be left out of the computer revolution.
lma5 TIL Rolling luggage wasn’t invented until 1970, and initially stores didn’t want to stock it.
oRxkL TIL NBA teammates David Robinson and Tim Duncan were nicknamed the “Twin Towers” due to their height. That nickname ended in 2001 even though they remained teammates until 2003.
QN8op TIL that some US states, such as Massachusetts, Michigan, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina, still have laws that prohibit blasphemy to varying degrees. However, the First Amendment protects freedom of speech, rendering these laws obsolete and unenforceable.