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5V5Jn TIL Your Average Fit Human Can Outrun a Deer. Deer sprint; Humans can run a marathon
p8LQ TIL that the death star trench sequence in Star Wars was inspired by the RAF dam busting missions during WW2
7rXPP TIL: That only in 1992 we confirmed there are planets beyond our solar system.
19r4 TIL: The US created a bomb containing hibernating bats with a timed incendiary device. Launched at dawn the bats would inhabit nearby attics up to a 40 mile radius setting fire to enemy territory. They named it the Bat Bomb.
VMRrk TIL that the first attempt to make an accurate world map was by an astrologer (Claudius Ptolemy, second century CE) so that he could chart the relationship between the person's birthplace and the heavenly bodies. While doing so, he coined the term "geography"