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TIL the electricity needed to power Times Square could power 161,000 average American homes or the entire country of Turks and Caicos

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v16Ar TIL that the part of sea urchins we eat ("uni") are their sex organs.
wQZ6 TIL During the “Red Terror” of 1918, Communist secret police in Orel “poured water on naked prisoners bound in the winter streets until they became living ice statues.” In Ukraine, they “rolled people around in barrels studded internally with nails.” Upwards of 1 million people died.
69NBl TIL Ludwig Wittgenstein, considered by many to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th Century, was asked by his sister to help build a house. He spent a year designing the door handles.
VBdwp TIL the record for the longest pregnancy is held by Beulah Hunter who gave birth to a healthy baby girl in 1945, over 100 days past her due date.
1a5B7 Today I learned the aircraft carrier ARA Veinticinco de Mayo of the Argentine navy was originally a British Colossus class Aircraft carrier form WWII. She was sold to the Netherlands and then to Argentine Navy ultimately partcipating in the Falklands war against her original builders, the British.