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TIL that despite the name, no centipede has exactly one hundred legs because they always have an odd number of leg pairs

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O9la TIL Tipu’s Tiger is an 18th-century mechanical toy created for the Indian king, Tipu. It compromised of a tiger savaging a near life-size European man who emitted a wailing sound from his mouth.The king frequently amused himself with this representation of victory over the English.
d7kQ TIL that from 2000-2001 in California, traders at the now defunct company, Enron, manipulated the price of energy by shutting down power grids causing rolling blackouts. These blackouts would increase demand for energy and thus cause the price to surge sometimes 20x above it’s normal value.
N7Ew1 TIL there is a Winter Olympics sport called skeleton in which participants ride headfirst on a skeletal-looking sled
nlo Today I learned Stevies dad from “Malcolm in the Middle” voices Uncle Ruckus on “The Boondocks”
R5oyQ TIL about the British submarine E31 which in WW1 fired the final shots that brought down German Zeppelin LZ 32