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TIL China built roughly one windmill an hour in 2009

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Z9xQ TIL that Dan Schneider, the weird manager in Nickelodeon’s Good Burger, created and wrote Victorious, iCarly, The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, and What I Like About You, making him the most successful writer/tv executive in Children’s Entertainment Television for the last thirty years.
ADXZl TIL When the Six Flags Over Texas theme park opened in 1961, it had a section dedicated to the Confederacy where actors would hunt through the crowd for Union "spies" and "execute" them by firing squad, and where boys and girls could sign up to defend the South as soldiers and nurses.
16ZlP TIL a large network of small rock dams across a watershed can increase wayer quality and repair habitats (USGS Video)
5Y1lQ TIL Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) is both the most expensive European and independent film ever made.
699Z8 TIL that Continental Drift was considered pseudoscience despite the evidence to the contrary, and was openly ridiculed by the scientific community