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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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e0Pjn TIL in mizoram (India) every 50 years there is a phenomenon called 'rat bloom' where rat population explodes due to blooming of Mautam bamboos
YWe7 TIL the the $100 million in famine relief raised by Live Aid in 1985, was used to buy weapons and crush the opposition in Ethiopia’s civil war
NJob TIL: Angel dust (PCP) is still a Schedule 2 drug, while marijuana is still Schedule 1, lawfully making pot worse than angel dust and as bad as heroin in the eyes of the law.
rND7W TIL That homosexuality for men wasn't decriminalised in England/Wales until 1967 with sexual acts not fully on par with the legal status' of heterosexual or lesbian couples until 2001
PYvPw TIL that Olympians can use the OLY lettering on any official documentation after their name much like when one gets a royal honor or PhD