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TIL: Badminton is the fastest racquet sport in the world. The shuttlecock speed can exceed 300kmph

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awGZ9 TIL that there is a pink lake in Western Australia due to the presence of algae and halobacteria!
wLyyJ TIL that the largest ocean liner built entirely in the United States (and designed by an American) is sitting derelict in Philadelphia, PA in danger of becoming scrap.
9YLJQ TIL Woodrow Wilson gave immense power to his son-in-law William Gibbs McAdoo and appointed him U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and presided over the Federal Reserve
pYY4p TIL that during The Depression, FDR started construction on tidal dams in Passamaquoddy and Cobscook bays, on Maine’s border with New Brunswick, to generate electricity using the gigantic tides from the Bay of Fundy called the Quoddy Tidal Power Project.
rN4Gy TIL The Praetorian Guard assassinated thirteen Roman emperors. "An astonishing rate of murders for a unit whose sole purpose was the protection of the emperor."