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TIL 10-20 percent of USA power outages are caused by squirrels

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75WM TIL the fastest man made object that’s ever moved was an iron manhole cover, which traveled at five times the earth’s escape velocity at 0.02% the speed of light
LQLn0 TIL that former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the same day; July 4th, 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
4X456 TIL that American women who joined the military in WW1 served actively in the navy and were paid exactly the same as men, and were treated like veterans after the war.
164r TIL that the underwear bomber had agreed to being sodomized by his Muslim brethren in the name of jihad so as to widen his anus just enough to be able to hold explosives inside.
Z875G TIL that between 1974 and 1984 a pro-paedophile activist group called the Paedophile Information Exchange campaigned openly in the UK to abolish the age of consent and even spoke on national television about their views on sexual contact with underage children