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TIL When the first steam engine was built in 1804, people were worried that the speed would make rail passengers unable to breathe or that they would be shaken unconscious by the vibrations

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oRedo TIL the average male height in the US is 69.420 inches tall aka 5'9"
ADEv7 TIL studies done by online stockbrokers where they analyse the results achieved by their clients found that the ones that did the best were those that had died (and the category that did second best had forgotten their log in details).
xEQg TIL “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine
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