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TIL that before buses were introduced, school students in rural areas of New Zealand traveled up to 18 miles to school on horseback and stored their horse at school

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6JvZ TIL that NASA and the JPL released retro/futuristic artwork, available for free, that illustrate what space exploration might eventually mean to the human race.
aYnN TIL that in WW2, the allied powers used fake “ghost armies” to intimidate and confuse Hitler and other Axis powers. They were most known for deceiving the Germans into thinking they had a powerful unit of men away from Normandy on D-Day.
G0Q4 TIL American chemist Henry Eyring did not receive the Nobel Prize for his development of transition state theory of chemical reactions. Several chemists would go on to win Nobel prizes for work based on his theory.
neODY TIL the bluefin tuna is one of the fastest accelerating fish reaching a maximum of 3.27 G, or approximately 32 ms^-2. It would reach a speed of 144 mph if the tuna did it for 2 seconds. That's faster than any car. The bluefin tuna's top speed is roughly 44 mph.
4XXN TIL A Roman Catholic physician developed the first modern form of birth control.