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TIL that a healthy human can briefly produce about 1.2 Horsepower

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9YRRm TIL a Canadian named Dominique Rousselle has spent 1 month every year for the past 20 years traveling to Thailand to provide food and medicine to stray dogs
ajpL TIL there has never been snakes in Ireland because being cold-blooded, snake couldn’t survive the frozen ground during the ice age in the past.
E1VBV TIL 'zavana' was the indigenous name for the plains around Comagre in Panama - it was borrowed into Spanish and then English to describe similar environments, becoming the modern word 'savanna'
e0nYb TIL doves were traditionally released during the opening ceremony of the Olympics games, until Seoul 1988. Several of the birds, instead of flying away, settled on the cauldron housing the Olympic flame and were subsequently incinerated in front of the crowd when it was lit.
L4dp TIL that there are more slaves today than at any other point in history.