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TIL one horse’s power is greater than one horsepower

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GYW8N TIL Kansas City blatantly ignored The Prohibition. You could buy booze a few blocks down from the police station. They got away with it scot-free for all 13 years (1920 to 1933).
BrXnb TIL Base metals like Lead can be transmuted into gold using particle accelerators. The process is so expensive that it is not economically viable. Gold can also be turned into base metals.
GYv71 TIL someone secretly built a subway under Broadway, NYC
woxPP TIL UFO sightings date back to ancient Rome: in 218 BCE, during the Punic Wars, ‘phantom ships’ were reportedly seen in the sky near Rome; in 76 BCE, Pliny the Elder recorded a story of a ‘spark’ that fell from the sky, increased in size, and then returned to the heavens
vgN8 TIL Jaguar was originally called SS Cars and renamed itself in 1945 to avoid confusion with the Nazi organisation.