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TIL the max output of a horse can be 15 horsepower and humans can create multiple horsepower.

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wLX5o TIL During filming of 'The Wizard of Oz', Judy Garland was constantly sexually harassed by the munchkins. The munchkins were paid so little to appear in the movie, they resorted to prostitution and used to have regular orgies in their hotel rooms.
W7wNo TIL Joe Pesci released an album in 1968 called “Little Joe Sure Can Sing!” It includes covers of songs by The Bee Gees and Beatles
Zljo TIL an elderly man investigated for having large sums of cash but no visible means of support was found to have 1,258 paintings in his apartment, over 500 of which suspected as having been looted by the Nazis.
edk6 TIL that Crassus, a Roman general and also one of the richest men in history, used to purchase buildings on fire for a very low price and then put the fires out with his trained army of 500 slaves and rebuild them. If the owners refused to sell their property, he would not engage in firefighting.
Me7AA National Geographic Emerging Explorer Leslie Dewan is helping to revolutionize the nuclear power industry by designing a safer, more efficient alternative to today’s reactors.Conventional nuclear reactors only use about 3 to 4 percent of uranium’s accessible energy. The energy left behind is what makes conventional nuclear waste—radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years—so dangerous. Extracting more of the available energy reduces the radioactive lifetime of the waste. To this end, Dewan is helping to develop techniques that extract 96 percent of the available energy.