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TIL James Watt calculated horsepower by measuring the output of an actual horse in order to quantify how many horses his steam engines could replace.

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vP4Px TIL Max Brooks is a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, and “his books have inspired the U.S. military to examine how they may respond to potential crises in the future”.
kJlQB TIL the words "fajita" and "fascіsm" both derive from the Latin word "fasces"
mxR0P Til Bully sticks are prepared from the bull pizzle (aka penis muscle) which is cleaned, stretched, and twisted before being prepared. Preparation can vary from sun dried to oven baked or smoked. ... Authentic bully sticks are made from 100% beef (the only ingredient is the bull penis).
maAv TIL In 1953 North Korean air force lieutenant No Kum-Sok (age 21) flew his MiG-15 to the South. Since this fighter plane was then the best the Communist bloc had, No’s defection was considered an intelligence bonanza, and he was awarded the then exorbitant sum of $100,000 ($890,831 in 2014 dollars).
nvkb TIL in 1934 Philo Farnsworth and RCA went to court to establish whose patent marked the beginning of TV broadcasting. In court, Farnsworth’s high school physics teacher testified that the boy, at 14 years old, first described to him the idea for a scanning tube, better known as a television.