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TIL “The Powerpuff Girls” were originaly called “The Whoopass Girls”

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P18vZ TIL that in the late 1920s, Henry Ford tried to build a town called Fordlandia in the Brazilian jungle for the purpose of supplying tire rubber. Designed to be inhabited by 10,000 people, the project totally failed from poor management, disease, worker unrest, and other factors.
p8jke TIL Nike Air shoes are no more than a marketing gimmick, they were never designed to make you run faster, and many famous athletes do not even wear their own signature models because they are not ideal for competition.
nmdd TIL every horse that has run in the Kentucky Derby since 1990 can trace their bloodlines back to the Belle Meade Plantation (Nashville), and most came from the same sire: Bonnie Scotland
kOrOg TIL that between 2014 and 2016 an Australian electrician bunked off work roughly 140 times to play golf, covering his tracks using a crisp packet as a Faraday cage to block an electronic tracker that would have pinpointed his location.
x68Q7 TIL: Fairyflies are very tiny insects, like most chalcidoid wasps, mostly ranging from 0.5 to 1.0 mm (0.020 to 0.039 in) long. They include the world's smallest known insect, with a body length of only 0.139 mm (0.0055 in), and the smallest known flying insect, only 0.15 mm (0.0059 in) long.