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TIL the peak output of a horse can reach nearly 15 horsepower
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TIL: When he was dying, Einstein refused surgery, saying “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
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TIL the Padres have signed the same handicapped ball player 20 years in row so he doesn’t lose his health insurance.
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TIL The whole Unit 731 were granted immunity by the Americans if they gave the Allies their information. The Unit 731 committed many war crimes throughout the war through biological tests.
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TIL that tobacco plants easily absorb radioactive particles, causing radioactive polonium settling down in the lungs directly. This can be avoided, but tobacco industry consider washing “too expensive”
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TIL that in Japanese schools students are required to have straight black hair and white underwear. A Student was ordered to dye her hair black every four days and was excluded from a school trip because it still “wasn’t black enough.