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TIL that Ireland is a third-world country

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neybY TIL that infants require more General Anaesthetic than adults. For example a 6 month old baby requires almost 2x the amount to become unconscious than a 60 year old. My wife is studying Pharmacokinetics and I'm learning vicariously when she explains some the fascinating stuff. PubMed link as ref.
loBYr TIL of the horse Comanche, who was the lone survivor from his detachment at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He is one of only three horses in US history to be given full military honors at his funeral.
7mwO TIL that China’s Three Gorges Damn has slowed the Earth’s rotation by 0.06 microseconds
eD4J TIL that after filming Zulu director Cy Endfield could not pay the Zulu extras because of South Africa’s apartheid laws, he circumvented this by leaving all the animals they used including Cattle, a gift more valuable than money to the Zulus.
XEvm6 TIL lawns take up a roughly equally sized area of the US as Texas does