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TIL that California generates so much solar power that at times the state will pay Arizona to take it.

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ppON TIL Anthony Stockelman molested and murdered a 10-year-old girl named “Katie” in 2005. When he was sent to prison, a relative of Katie’s was reportedly also there and got to Stockelman in the middle of the night and tattooed “Katie’s Revenge” on his forehead.
78Yxr TIL what Jamie Hyneman (Mythbusters) has been up to- he built a Wildfire-fighting Tank with Palmer Luckey (Oculus founder) and Jim Newton (Techshop founder).
Z66a TIL the first same sex couple in History were 2 manicurists to the Pharaoh, Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. They are depicted facing each other and embracing in their joint tomb with inscriptions reading “joined in life and joined in death”
v1ZZD TIL that according to MIT, Magic: The Gathering is considered the world's most complex game. A proof shows that optimal play in Magic: The Gathering is so difficult that a computer would be unable to figure out the winner.
loRP7 TIL that the first message ever sent over the internet was “LO” in 1969. A programmer at UCLA attempted to send each letter of the word “LOGIN” to the Stanford Research institute, but the machine crashed after the first two.