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BpmL TIL in 1958 while widening a road the RAF discovered that a fifteen year-old display mockup of the biggest bomb ever used in WWII was not merely a mockup but was actually a live bomb.
M7DlK TIL in the AFI’s ranking of the greatest films in American cinema, 3 of the top 4 films are the Godfather trilogy
Oowg7 “An untrained person has around five litres of blood, typically around 50 - 75ml per kilo — five to seven per cent — of body mass. A world-class endurance athlete can have two or three litres more in total, and as much as 150ml per kilo — 15 per cent — of body mass."
J1Dlv TIL Compared with many primates, humans have a high propensity for proactive aggression, a trait shared with chimpanzees but not bonobos. By contrast, humans have a low propensity for reactive aggression compared with chimpanzees, and in this respect humans are more bonobo-like.
b9BA4 TIL there is a battery of unknown composition still supplying power after 176 years.