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TIL Magikarp has a crown, and is called Koi King in Japan 4:10 in the video

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MeP88 TIL The 1886 Benz Motorwagen engine had 958cc displacement and 2/3 horsepower. It had three wire frame wheels and a tubular chassis. Some of its features like the electric ignition and rack and pinion steering are still standard to this day
YeoG TIL Hugh Glass, in 1823, was mauled nearly to death by a grizzly in South Dakota, but killed it with a knife, was left for dead with no supplies, set his own broken leg and crawled on his side for more than 200 miles, for 6 weeks, until he reached civilization. He survived.
J1pRj TIL following Washington's victory at Yorktown, he ordered the re-enslavement of thousands of free former slaves that were attached to the British army
D1K5v TIL that natives used to cure leather with animal brains to make it stay soft even after it gets wet.
8eLxZ TIL that the distance flew in the Berlin Airlift was almost the entire way from the Earth to the Sun, totalled over 92,000,000 miles (148,000,000 km).