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TIL The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier can operate for 20 years without refueling

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M7R5A TIL about the least weasel, the smallest member of the genus Mustela. Relative to body size, the weasel has a stronger bite force than a lion, tiger, hyena, or even a bear. Though it happens rarely, least weasels are capable of killing prey far larger than themselves.
R7kv8 TIL of America’s first bank robbery, of $162,821, the thief was caught because he deposited the money back into the same bank.
GYNdj TIL Rosemary Kennedy was developmentally disabled and lashed out regularly. She was given a lobotomy and asked to sing 'God Bless America'. They continued cutting away deeper into her brain until her singing became incoherent, then stopped.
ep6EE TIL French physicists Leon Foucault and Louis Fizeau made the first successful photograph of the sun in 1845, five years after the first photograph of the Moon. In a major technological feat at the time, the solar photograph had an exposure time of 1/60th of a second
D1mBV TIL Wendy's founder Dave Thomas regretted using his daughter's name. Not long before he died he told his daughter: "I should've just named it after myself, because it put a lot of pressure on you."