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TIL the average wind speed in Denmark is 7.6 metres per second, making it the world’s largest wind turbine exporter.

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78Y4L TIL in 2010 a fan of the University of Alabama football team fatally poisoned several 130 year old oak trees on rival Auburn's campus. Six years later an LSU fan set one of the replacement trees on fire.
wLrkY TIL In 1959, nine Russian hikers died mysteriously in the Ural Mountains. Known as the "Dyatlov Pass Incident," investigators concluded that the nine died could have died of a "compelling natural force" known as infrasound-induced panic
jNjja TIL, kids growing up in Canada played "The Yukon Trail" instead of the Oregon Trail in the US.
PlnL TIL Louisiana has a different legal system than the other 49 states. It is based in French and Spanish Civil Law as opposed to English Common Law.
KOZ5G TIL about a baseball team that literally played for their lives. An integrated team of death-row inmates was assembled, called The Penitentiary All Stars, played against other local teams in Wyoming, and earned the prison officials money from gambling. Winning earned the team stays of execution.