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TIL of the Maybach Excelero, an one off 690hp High performance Sports Car that was sold for US$8 million to rapper Birdman in 2011.

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78GkM TIL that the oldest known prosthetic leg dates back to 300BC and was crafted by Romans from bronze and iron with a wooden core.
v19RR TIL a 54-year-old man is the first known person to survive a sudden cardiac arrest and remain neurologically intact after spending 96 minutes without a heartbeat.
b6JxQ TIL that the final straw for Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait was the Kuwaiti emir telling the Iraqi Foreign Minister his intention to turn "every Iraqi woman into a $10 prostitute" by ruining Iraq financially
epOGn TIL that a horse normally has more than one horsepower and some horses can even produce 18,000 W of power, so around 24 horsepower
gMDEb TIL that Lincoln loved cats so much that he once fed them from the table during a formal White House dinner. When his wife told him that it was “shameful in front of their guests,” he replied “If the gold fork was good enough for former President James Buchanan, I think it is good enough for Tabby.”