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TIL that Australia, Great Britain and Switzerland are the only countries to send a team to every Olympic Games since their inception in 1896.

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OGQ5e TIL the max output of a horse can be 15 horsepower and humans can create multiple horsepower.
4XXBJ TIL that the warm blooded Atlantic Bluefin Tuna is so powerful, it can cook its own flesh with sudden bursts of muscle activity
neyaW TIL a study on cutting in lines found that one person cutting in line has a 54% chance that others in the line will object, and that this jumps to 91.3% when it’s 2 people cutting in line.
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