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TIL that finger monkeys are capable of turning their heads at an angle of 180 degrees, showing no signs of difficulty

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xYl7 TIL the New Zealand town of Brightwater had 5 electric street lights in 1911 powered by a hydroelectric generator which was auto-controlled by a flock of chickens. At night, the chickens would go inside their coop and their weight would close an electric circuit, turning on the street lights.
ZpkPv TIL That the word “Handicapped” (also in my native language “Handikappad”) originates from “hand in cap” and was used in hazard games during the medieval times. It ment that players put money in a cap as apart of the game.
4ogR TIL that in 2006, Florida passed Amendment 3 which states that any proposed amendment to or revision of the State Constitution requires at least 60% of votes. It passed with 57%.
ADBM4 TIL about Microtargeting where machine-learning algorithms ingest large amounts of voter data to divide the electorate into narrow segments and predict which individual voters are best target to persuade or turn out in an election
eybL TIL that the sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 100 miles away