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TIL That a single Boeing 777 Engine delivers twice the horsepower of all the Titanic’s steam engines combined.

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1eGP TIL, The United States government forced the residents of Bikini Atoll to move to multiple uninhabitable islands to conduct nuclear testing, moved them back to a radioactive wasteland, and now has them living on a tiny island living off of subsidies.
wL6jo TIL Husqvarna chainsaws pre-decessor was a firearms manufacturer.
bXV7 TIL that in 2012, ALSA spent less than 8% of their funding on their main objective of research, and 28% on administration and fundraising.
xVjp7 TIL The distress signal "Mayday" originates from a French phrase “m’aidez” or “m’aider”, which literally means ‘help me’.
MDB7 TIL sloths used to exist which were the size of elephants. The Megatherium weighed 4 tonnes, could use its tail and hind legs like a tripod, and was hunted to extinction by early man only 10,000 years ago.