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TIL Grizzly Bears are strong enough to smack a human's head off, crushing crushing a bowling ball with their jaws, and running 35 mph

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78MQx TIL Norway has a special licence plate just for rally cars.
0dwg1 TIL the 1974 Daytona 500 was actually only 450 miles in distance. The race counter started on lap 21 to keep the traditional 200 laps on the counter, due to the energy crisis going on at the time.
Y7gxZ TIL that the Order of the Crescent is an organization of knights of the Ottoman Empire, and the first knight is Horatio Nelson, who was crowned in the victory at the Battle of the Nile.
gAZW TIL that Liverpool was once the “Second City of The British Empire” and for periods in the 19th century its wealth even eclipsed that of London.
X0mbX TIL - Esperanto is the most successful constructed international auxiliary language, and the only such language with a sizeable population of native speakers!