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TIL the mantis shrimp punches its prey with more force than a .22-caliber bullet.

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neKro TIL: Suffragette's were a militant movement that bombed Westminster Abbey and carried out roughly 250 arson or destruction attacks in one six-month period
p8NVZ TIL that Tarzana, Los Angeles is named after John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke a.k.a. Tarzan.
pYAjN TIL: Leonard Nimoy, known for playing Spock in Star Trek, refused to participate in the animated series until Nichelle Nichols and George Takei were included. He believed their presence was essential to the show's commitment to diversity.
DQ10D TIL in 1714 the British government offered £20K (~£2m today) to solve the longitude problem - which had cost thousands of lives due to a lack of ship positioning. John Harrison, a carpenter, took 40 years to make the perfect clock - his final version only lost 39.2 seconds over a voyage 47 days.
M7VNV TIL: That steam locomotives were invented before the bicycle. (1804 vs 1817)