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TIL that the original DeLorean only had 130 hp

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o1Jr TIL Barbara Lee was the only member of congress to vote no on the AUMF after 9/11 stating “It was a blank check to the president to attack anyone involved in the September 11 events—without regard to our nation’s long-term foreign policy, national security interests, and without time limit.”
kJp5d TIL that Iceland fought three wars with the United Kingdom between 1958 and 1976, winning every time
loyZ7 TIL A female donkey was acquitted on charges of bestiality at a trial in 1750 due to witnesses attesting to her virtue and good behaviour, but her co-accused human was sentenced to death.