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TIL Horses don’t have a horsepower of 1, but rather 15.
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TIL One of the founders of Starbucks returned a priceless collection of Chinese coins owned by his grandfather and donated it to the Shanghai Mint Museum in 2010. Its earliest piece is a coin mold dating back to 200 B.C., during the reign of Qin Shihuang
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TIL that there is a recurring provision prohibiting a redesign of the $1 bill. This is done to dissuade calls to change the bill and because of the cost to the vending machine industry
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TIL of Ramsar, Iran the most naturally radioactive place on earth. Current studies show a possible radioadaptive effect that allows the residents to live with over 10x the safe levels of radiation exposure.
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TIL: In 1930, a group of white Southern church ladies called bullsh-- on lynching, forming the Assoc. of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. They were pretty effective! I learned it from Lillian Smith's 'Killers of the Dream' (1949), but here's an article...
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TIL in literature there is a principle called Chekhov’s gun. This principle requires that every element in a text is necessary with no extra information at all.