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TIL that chainsaws were originally invented to help with childbirth.

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KOn4Q TIL In Kaziranga, a national park in north-eastern India rangers can shoot and kill poachers to protect the Indian one-horned rhinoceros with legal immunity, reducing rhino poaching.
5VWlQ TIL that Olive Oatman, a white girl kidnapped by Native Americans in 1851 and sold to the Mojave people as a slave, caused an uproar after returning to white society bare-breasted with blue tattoos across her face, which inspired the book "Life Among the Indians", an early American best seller.
X0eQX TIL Sweden and Norway has its own definition of a mile, being 10 kilometers. As a swede i always thought that this was the standard in the whole world except The US.
NLAe TIL it is technically legal to take wine through airport security in your bra
QJmZp TIL The peacock mantis shrimp has the hardest punch in the animal kingdom, relative to its small size. In fact, if humans were as strong as these miraculous creatures, a person could throw a baseball into the orbit of the Earth.