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TIL a trebuchet can launch a 90kg projectile over 300m

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x6JdD TIL Only 17-25% of people that fall overboard on a cruise ship are ever rescued
AMdg TIL that Spanish Flu didn’t come from Spain or hit it especially hard. Spain didn’t have the wartime censors other countries had, so Spanish media could report freely on the pandemic. This made it look like the situation in Spain was especially severe - resulting in the nickname “Spanish flu”.
reve TIL the reason Microsoft changed their word font setting from Time New Roman to Calibri 11 was to acknowledge the end the print era and the rise of the digital age.
gMZZ9 TIL Vitaminwater is basically sugar-water, to which about a penny's worth of synthetic vitamins have been added. A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage
oALL TIL an orphan from Uganda, who spent his youth as a human scarecrow on his abusive uncle’s farm, ran away at 14. With the help of a charity called YES Uganda, he has since earned 2 degrees, started a biotech company, founded a non-profit, and given a talk at TED.