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KO0ZR TIL American life expectancy dropped in 2016, the first time since 1993. It dropped again in 2017.
e0nn5 TIL the maximum power output of a horse is actually 14.9 horsepower
e0XZn TIL that the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkov, urinated on a tire of the bus that took her to the launch site. This remarkable woman was only 26 years old, a former textile factory worker, and was in space a full two decades before the first U.S. woman was.
xVxOw TIL that Prince was supposed to sing the hook on Kendrick Lamar's "Complexion (A Zulu Love). Prince heard and loved the record, and the concept of the record got both of them talking until they realized they didn't record anything and they ran out of time in the studio.
0w0mj TIL there are less than 1 million slot machines in the now-US, while there are over 4 million Pachinko machines in Japan.