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PYEWe TIL Kangaroos have tremendous endurance. In other animals metabolic rate increases with speed, but it levels off once Kangaroos start hopping due to the efficiency of elastic recoil.
yLxX TIL that in the World’s Quietest Room, you could actually hear your own stomach, inner ear, and even the sounds emitted from a cellphone’s display.
Ryml TIL According to the Department of Labor, Truck drivers have more non-fatal injuries on the job than any other job in America, and 1 in 6 of all work related deaths.
a8nEM TIL In 2014, GM issued an 800,000-car recall due to faulty ignitions. The automobiles would turn off while being driven, resulting in the loss of power steering and brakes, as well as the failure of the airbags to deploy. They have known about the issue since 2005, but never corrected it.
vP447 TIL that so many people were killed in the Battle of Changping which lasted from 262-260 BC that the bones of the dead were used to make fertilizer in the 1970s