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TIL the three gorges dam in China holds back so much water it slows the rotation of the earth slightly.

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E5X7 TIL Daylight Savings Time causes a 24% increase in heart attacks every day that the clocks move forward, and a 21% decrease in heart attacks every time the clocks move back.
nWEeB TIL that there is such thing called "trapped keys" to prevent machines from being switched on automatically while someone is working on them
b86p TIL Theodore Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt, was shot in the chest, and proceeded to deliver a 90 minute speech. He opened with: “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot, but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
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YMQr TIL the Ottoman Empire was ruled under one dynasty throughout its entire existence from 1299 until 1922.