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TIL that huskies need to train to be better distance runners. While the average pet husky can only run between 10 to 20 miles a day, a well-conditioned race husky can run for 11 hours straight making up to 125 miles. They can repeat this distance for up to 10 days in a row.

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e079L TIL Some high end Mercedes vehicles will play a loud "pink noise" when it detects an incoming collision. This triggers your ears to tense specific muscles and prevents the loud noise from the crash from causing hearing loss.
8ayJP TIL in 1968, at just 20 years old, Fred Hampton brokered a nonaggression pact among Chicago's most powerful street gangs and organized a multiracial "Rainbow coalition" to help end infighting and push for social change. He was then murdered in his sleep by the FBI.
e0NP4 TIL After her husband was executed by the King of France, Jeanne de Clisson set off on a quest of piracy and bloody justice. She would personally behead any aristocrats on board captures ships with her ax.
MevJA TIL that the population of the Inishkea Islands (in Ireland) was until recently unaware of Christianity and the English language, worshipping a magical stone regularly “re-clothed” by a priestess. A catholic priest cast the stone into the sea in the 1890s, then a storm left the islands abandoned.
OoVj4 TIL Pluto is technically a binary system. Its moon, Charon, is massive enough in relation to Pluto that the point around which they orbit is somewhere in between the two.