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nkp9 TIL that a “moment” is actually medieval unit of time that is equal to 1.5 minutes. There are 40 moments in an hour.
Br4ke TIL that while mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, because they are descended from once-domesticated horses, they are actually feral horses.
D10bJ TIL in 2001, a baby bear, lion, and tiger were rescued from a drug dealers house in Atlanta. They had bonded as a trio and remained friends for over 15 years. Usually as animals grow older, they grow apart from other species, but these three remained close and even lived in the same habitat.
8L14 TIL that for winning the 1922 Nobel Prize in physics, Carlsberg brewery gave Niels Bohr a house located next to their brewery, complete with a direct pipeline so that Bohr had free beer on tap whenever he wanted.
aw95y TIL that the Boeing 787 airliner should be rebooted every 248 days to avoid a software crash, which would lead to loss of all 4 power units and cause a real crash.