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TIL back in the day someone invented a 'horse-powered boat'

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XEnok TIL a study conducted in 2019 in the United States found that almost half of people reporting they had a food allergy are wrong.
nW7QW TIL: Karoly Takacs, a Hungarian Army shooter, lost his winning "right" hand due to a grenade explosion months before the olympic games. He decided to practice shooting with his left hand and won the Hungarian National Pistol Shooting Championship in 1939 & won Gold in 1948 and 1952 olympics.
a9a9 TIL Air Force One is any plane carrying the President, not the name of the plane
j6MLM TIL Anthony Daniels (b. 1946) is the only actor to have either appeared in or been involved with all nine films in the Star Wars series. (C-3PO)
78ENp TIL the mangaka Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon) is married to another famous manga author Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter x Hunter and Yu Yu Hakusho)