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TIL that the last person executed by the Spanish Inquisition was Cayetano Ripoll, who was hanged in 1826 for teaching deist principles

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VMB5m TIL The British Government decided that animals don’t feel pain or emotion also In March 2019 EU laws will no longer apply to the UK.
xMrg TIL The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise was the longest warship ever built, and weighed over 90,000 tons. Despite this, it was one of the fastest, due to having 8 seperate nuclear reactors putting out a total of 280,000hp. No other carrier has more than two.
EgZmp TIL that blue whales and fin whales can produce fertile hybrids, despite their genetic distance being similair to that between humans and gorillas.
d8nvK TIL that, though sunlight takes only 8 minutes to reach from the Sun to our earth, a photon of light can take up to 100,000 years from the core of the Sun to get to the surface !!!
VBJwD TIL the largest non-rigid airship ever flown was in 1958. It was 122.8m long and 36.6 m high, had a crew of 21 people and a maximum speed of 128 km/h (80mph)