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TIL An individual horse has a peak power output of 14.9 horsepower.

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wLRYP TIL that in 1965, California City, located in the mojave desert, was designed to be a metropolis built to rival Los Angeles. But lack of funds caused the city to never be built. The city currently has a population of around 15,000, and has a size of 125 square miles.
XWjj TIL Henry Ford strongly supported Nazi’s and even received the Grand Cross of the German Eagle.
1bBV TIL that before 1600, a game of chess could be won by capturing all of the opponent’s pieces, leaving a bare king; a style of play known as “annihilation”. In Medieval times, players considered it nobler to win by checkmate, so annihilation became a half win for a while, until it was abandoned.
x6pe5 TIL in 2002 a student crashed a Cessna into a building, taking inspiration from 9/11
wLQw7 TIL on November 22, 1963, an unidentified woman placed a phone call to a news station, telling them John F Kennedy was about to be killed. The call was placed about 20 minutes before his assassination, from the vicinity of Oxnard, California, about fifty miles northwest of Los Angeles.