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TIL Hamburg has begun implementing a 20-year plan to become a car-free city, eliminating automobiles entirely across Germany’s second-largest city in favor of public transit, pedestrian and bike paths

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BwPx TIL The Black Marlin is the fastest animal in the world, exceeding the top speed of any land animal or bird in horizontal flight.
wvZY TIL the Temple University Owls mascot was chosen because Temple began as a night school for young people of limited means
Egdww TIL that although we are warned to be most afraid of a mother bear and her cubs, nearly 90% of fatal bear attacks are at the paws of lone male bears.
YdNd TIL the fastest that humans have ever travelled on land is 760MPH (ThrustSSC). In the air, 4520MPH (X-15 Jet). And in space, 24,791MPH (Apollo 10 upon re-entry).
KOmeE TIL Darwin believed that white people were more evolved than black people. He also believed that males were superior to females.