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TIL The US has had a Native American vice president

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D18ZJ TIL that a single submarine can launch a total of 91,200 kilotons of destruction in 192 warheads; that's 5700x Hiroshima and ~41000x the recent Beirut explosion
kQje TIL a death row inmate in Tennessee discovered there were untested fingerprints that had been found at the original crime scene. In a last-ditch effort to prove his innocence, he successfully petitioned a judge to have the tests run. They were found to be his own fingerprints.
GYOdQ TIL Spiders Eat Up to 800 Million Tons of Prey Each Year, nearly twice the amount by weight of meat humans consume each year.
wM8M TIL The first mention of Muhammad in the West comes from a discussion between Byzantine Christian and Jew written shortly after Muhammad’s death in 632. It says,“He is deceiving. For do prophets come with sword and chariot?You will discover nothing true from the said prophet except human bloodshed”
LQNRd TIL Sharks first appeared around 420 million years ago, which means they were around before the dinosaurs