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TIL the only public commercial hovercraft service in the world connects Portsmouth with the Isle of Wight

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NM1b TIL Student debt in America now exceeds $1 Trillion.. that is even greater than the nation’s credit card debt!
Dkyp TIL Gray’s paradox (how can dolphins achieve their swim speed with their muscle mass) was solved by showing that their tails can change stiffness to keep high efficiency at different speeds.
ZaOY TIL Neil Patrick Harris enjoys Red Bull so much on and off the set of How I Met Your Mother that he was given a lifetime supply of it and a mini-refrigerator by the company that makes the drink because of the amount of free advertising he has given it.
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BgQrx TIL The United States considered using 520 nuclear bombs to blast away an alternative to the Suez Canal through Israel in the 1960s