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TIL Horses don’t have a horsepower of 1, but rather 15.

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J16PV TIL Germany, Italy and Japan were elected among others in 1986 to serve together on the U.N. Security Council for the first time. This marks the first time all three former Axis powers joining the council led by the victorious Allied powers of World War 2, all of which are permanent members.
b971Z TIL people during the American Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s were encouraged to march in their finest clothes so as to reframe the very idea of what a disrupter looked like.
dYZ8 TIL that during WW2 a “Bat Bomb” was created. As the bomb descended the bats would warm up and awaken from hibernation. At 1,000 ft. altitude, the bomb would open and 1000+ bats, each carrying a tiny time-delayed napalm incendiary device would emerge.
VBnPD TIL Our brains combine the signal from our nose and tongue to create flavor
QJBVk TIL That in France, the French title for Meet the Parents was “My Father-in-Law and Me” so Meet the Spartans is called Spartatouille