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TIL Seahorses are notoriously bad swimmers, so much so that the dwarf seahorse is considered the slowest fish in the world.

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epa05 TIL that the Chevy Bolt has a 65kwh battery. This is equivalent to 2 gallons of gasoline at 35kwh per gallon. This shows the great energy density of gasoline and the incredible efficiency of electric motors. An electric car can go 300 miles while an ICE car can only go roughly 60 miles.
kJ6JW TIL that between 2016 and 2020 doctors in the USA surgically mutilated 48,000 people for profit
lA41 TIL actor Martin Sheen has been arrested a total of 66 times for protesting and acts of civil disobedience - most recently in 2007 for trespassing at a Nevada nuclear test facility.
BrwZr TIL about the 1958 destruction of Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in southwest British Columbia. It took three years to place over 1,000 tons of explosive in tunnels under the mountain, and it was one of the largest non-nuclear planned explosions on record.
GAPN5 TIL that NBC and Cablevision partnered to put live coverage of the 1992 Olympics on 3 Pay Per View channels. The "Olympics Triplecast" was a flop, and even triggered a lawsuit from NYC over false advertising.