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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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epkln TIL: Henriette d'Angeville was the first woman who climbed the MontBlanc unaided. She had to design her own climbing clothes. She took with her 18 bottles of wine and 26 roasted chickens. At the top she was lifted by her guides so that she 'had gone higher than any man before her'.
78Ajp TIL that most airlines never use a flight number again if that flight has a fatal crash, except for American Airlines, which keeps using flight #1 despite three major crashes.
nepgr TIL that Deer antlers are actually a "controlled-form of bone cancer"
9YZyQ TIL many people believed Abraham Lincoln was ugly, including himself. Once, when he was accused of being “two-faced” during a debate, he replied, “If I had two faces, would I be showing you this one?”
e0BLL TIL that on Apollo 15, a hammer and a feather were dropped on the surface of the moon to illustrate how objects of different weight fall at an equal rate without air resistance.