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TIL China built roughly one windmill an hour in 2009

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JYWRB TIL that Russia has an extremely long and sophisticated history of secret biological weapons development, including using such weapons.
XEOak TIL Rob Knox, who played Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was stabbed to death outside a bar in London while protecting his younger brother from two men, one of whom was armed with two knives. He was 18.
N7PDM TIL that Jim Carrey had to be taught CIA torture coping techniques to endure the make-up process for How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
mnrE TIL that when Montana imposed speed limits on former No Limit roads, traffic fatalities doubled.
PYx9E TIL In the 1980's to compete with McDonald's quarter pounder, A&W introduced a third pound burger that did well in taste tests, but it didn't sell well because Americans thought a quarter pound was bigger than a third of a pound.