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TIL a trebuchet can launch a 90kg projectile over 300m
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TIL That in 1980, Saddam Hussein was awarded the key to the city of Detroit.
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TIL 8231 passengers have died in Aeroflot crashes, the most of any airline. Air France is second with 1783
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TIL In 1916 an Arctic cold front slammed through Browning, Montana, dropping the temperature from 44°F to -56°F in 24 hours. The most dramatic 24-hour drop in temperature ever recorded in the US.
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TIL The US may have adopted the metric system if pirates hadn’t kidnapped the French scientist sent to help Thomas Jefferson persuade Congress to adopt the system
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TIL The ozone hole, which was first spotted 25 years ago, is close to closing