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TIL that electric eels can deliver a shock of up to 600 volts, which is strong enough to stun a horse.

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ZDDv TIL Muhammad Ali, being refused a hamburger and told, “We don’t serve negroes”, replied, “That’s OK. I don’t eat ‘em.”
NREJ TIL: The longest recorded time spent awake was set in 1965 a high school student stayed awake for 264 hours (about 11 days)
plyA TIL: “shitstorm” has been adopted into the German language as, a perfectly polite noun meaning, an internet born controversy
AyWa TIL as much as 40 percent of bottled water in the United States comes from public water supplies yet costs up to 2000 time more
OKx4 TIL “knock on wood” derived from Pagans touching, tapping or knocking on trees believing they were the homes of fairies and dryads who would wake and bless them with luck.