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TIL by weight fat is 15 times more energy dense than TNT.

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p85Kb TIL stairs go counter-clockwise because of castle defenses. Castle were defended from the top down and since most people are right-handed it gave an advantage to be able to hold the railing with your left and the sword with your right.
XYVP TIL Gobekli Tepe, a stone age “temple”, is decorated with pillars of elaborately carved foxes, lions, spiders, snakes, scorpions & vultures posed to twist & crawl. It predates Stonehenge & the written word by 6,000 years. It extends across 22 Turkish acres. In the 60s it was dismissed as a cemetery.
OG5ga TIL of the Human Development Index (HDI) ranking of countries. Korea, Ireland, and Hong Kong (among others) outrank the U.S.
0wWa1 TIL that there is a basketball court above the actual supreme court room aptly named "The Highest Court in the Land"
5jOD TIL The Energizer Bunny is only in America because Duracell failed to renew their US trademark for a battery bunny. Elsewhere in the world Duracell advertises with a bunny.