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TIL that Montana Pool Service is a non-profit organization founded by Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam, that builds skateboard parks in rural and native communities in Montana. So far its funded over 20 parks.

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rNOKd TIL Macaws have a bite pressure of around 600 psi. A German shepherds bite is around 235 psi, and a tiger shark is around 325 psi.
yoYv TIL during the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, Herodotus recorded the first case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder when a Greek named Epizelus became permanently blind without being hit.
ep75J TIL Matthias Erzberger, the man who signed the armistice ending World War I on behalf of Germany, was assassinated by Far-Right radicals. The killers escaped to Hungary and were prosecuted only World War 2, while the mastermind later became a Nazi politician
aw8Mo TIL that a tribe from Napal risk their lives climbing the Himalaya Mountains to harvest honey made from the world's largest bees. The honey is collected from poisonous Rhododendron flowere. It provides a range of uses including psychedelic effects, as well as medical benefits.
OoKeL TIL that in 1994 the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke apart and struck Jupiter, giving scientists their first ever look at an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects. One impact had 600 times more force than the entire world’s nuclear arsenal.