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TIL the average horse has 14.9 horsepower

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epxbb TIL that the time zone used on the International Space Station is Coordinated Universal Time, which is equivalent to GMT.
OwV4 TIL in 2016, with the support of her mother, a U.K. teenage girl with terminal cancer successfully petitioned London’s High Court for the right to be cryogenically frozen. The girl died with the knowledge that she would be frozen, and her body was sent to the U.S. for long-term cryogenic storage.
nWjdP TIL the Guinness Book of World Records originated from an argument over the fastest game bird in Europe.
QNVAd TIL that during WWII, nearly 1,000 Polish children were deported to Siberian gulags. Starving and displaced, they found refuge in India, welcomed by Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, who built them a home, gave them schooling, and treated them as his own.