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TIL that American Pharoah’s Great-Great-Great Grandfather is Secretariat

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RVOl TIL Between 1964 and 1996, the People’s Republic of China conducted 46 nuclear tests in East Turkestan, the homeland of millions of Uyghurs. Some of the bombs were 300 times more powerful than the one exploded in Hiroshima.
bNd9 TIL dolphins have been recorded having conversations in which they alter volume and frequency of pulsed clicks to form individual “words” which they string together into sentences in much the same way that humans speak. Each dolphin would listen to a sentence without interruption before replying.
8aZ0P TIL the adhesive used on Post-It notes was developed in research at 3M by a scientist Dr. Silver as a failed super strength adhesive. For years Silver could not think of a use for it until his fellow scientist Art Fry considered its use to hold notes in his hymnal to mark pages for choir practice.
7rGeZ TIL that in April 1917, the average life expectancy for a british pilot on the western front was 69 flying hours.
5Yjv9 TIL of US Army Major General Peter Conover Hains, the only Civil War officer to see duty in World War I