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TIL the collective term for ferretts is a business.
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TIL that Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote 23 sequels to Tarzan of the Apes. The ape-man discovers he is John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke, fights alongside Germans in WWI, finds a colony of Atlantis and the City of Gold, befriends a tribe of dog-sized humans, and has other bizarre adventures.
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TIL when they invented bra sizes 80 years ago, the biggest cup size expected was a D cup
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TIL that only two of the past seven US presidents have been right handed, even though about 90% of humans are right handed.
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TIL that E = mc² is always applicable e.g: a compressed spring has more mass than a loose spring. The extra mass can be calculated by inserting the added potential energy into the above equation.
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TIL Most of the big US Airlines have shifted major maintenance work on their aircraft to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China, where few mechanics are FAA certified and inspections “have no teeth”