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TIL that the Etruscan shrew has the fastest heartbeat of any mammal, at upto 1,500 beats per minute.

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R5Nrl TIL the US won the gold, silver, and bronze medals in tug of war at the 1904 Summer Olympics.
JEj4 TIL the Slinky was conceived of in 1943 by Richard James. While working at a shipbuilding company, he watched a torsion spring fall off a table and flip end over end. His wife came up with the name Slinky after looking through the dictionary for a word that described the motion of the spring.
XXL6 TIL that around 20% of Poland’s population died in WW2. The highest percentage of any nation.
X0A68 TIL In 1929, the author of Peter Pan gave the copyrights to the books to Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1988, the hospital was given unique right to the royalties from Peter Pan in the UK for perpetuity.
rN4Vd TIL, Dungeons and dragons was demonized back in the 1980s particularly from religious groups due to the fantasical and violent nature of the game