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TIL Clever Hans, a horse, who performed various mathematical, musical, and language tasks, like arithmetic operations, telling the time, differentiating between musical tones, and understanding and spelling German. He is thought to have been eaten by hungry soldiers in WW1 after being drafted.

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OGVkg TIL according to the (US) National Earthquake Information Center there are approximately 20,000 earthquakes around the globe each year, or 55 per day, with about 16 major earthquakes in any given year.
Np1 TIL Inside Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch is a long-hidden message
OoAbg TIL that Davinder Singh of New Delhi, India broke a Guinness World Record in 2017 for typing fast with his nose, managing to type a 17-word English sentence in just over 40 seconds.
b9xM0 TIL that in 2003, the mayor of Chicago illegally bulldozed the runway of a downtown airport in the middle of the night to create a park. This stranded 16 planes on the ground and required an inbound flight to be diverted. The FAA fined the city $33k - the maximum allowed at the time.
69eP7 TIL that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald may have been sunk by a rogue wave.