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TIL that treadmills were originally used as punishment for prisoners.

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KO9VG TIL there is an very isolated island in the Pacific inhabited entirely by the descendants of a group of British sailors who mutinied against their captain in 1789, kidnapped a dozen Polynesian girls, and resolved to "run before the wind, and land upon the first island the ship drives."
amgy TIL the infamous “It’s a UNIX system!” scene in Jurassic Park is using an actual 3D file explorer called fsn.
QJwVL TIL that the supercontinent Pangaea was not the first supercontinent. There were at least three before it
7rEax TIL in 1917 the Aerowagon experimental high-speed railcar used an aircraft engine and propeller traction to go 140 kph (87mph) to carry Soviet officials. In 1921 officials successfully went from Moscow to Tula. On return it derailed at high speed killing 6 of 22 on board including the inventor.
X0PvD TIL In the wake of the Second World War, the US occupied Iceland until 2006