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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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Me0xb TIL The ancient Pompeians “did not have ‘perfect teeth’”, and were subject to tooth decay, gum disease, etc.
4KQg TIL that in 1985, Utah Senator Jake Garn flew aboard the Space Shuttle. He became so sick and nauseous, that to this day, astronauts use the “Garn” as a unit of measurement of space sickness…
nW9RY TIL That the one of the only Vice Presidents to resign was Spiro Agnew, who was VP under Richard Nixon, the only President to resign.
K8oE TIL there are artists who add monsters to thrift store paintings, turning boring idyllic scenes into incredible action-packed portraits
XEwAE TIL that in 1948, one of the deadliest earthquakes of all time occurred in The Soviet Union, killing 110,000 people; two thirds of an entire cities population