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TIL that the Harley Davidson V-Rod was developed in collaboration with Porsche and was their first motorcycle that used water cooling and overhead cams.

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0wMeN TIL At the time of the English settlement at Jamestown, established in 1607, Opechancanough was a much-feared warrior and a charismatic leader of the Powhatans. In 1646, forces under Royal Governor William Berkeley captured and killed him when he was in his 90s
KOl4Q TIL Dr. Jane Goodall set herself apart from traditional conventions by naming the animals in her studies of primates instead of assigning each a number. This also led her to develop a close bond with the chimpanzees and to become, to this day, the only human ever accepted into chimpanzee society.
0AxA TIL During the Second World War, the U.S. Army discovered that colorblind soldiers could distinguish camouflaged targets better than their counterparts with color vision could.
VBmLm TIL Intels CPU branding (i3, i5, i7, i9) is based on the amount of defective sections in the integrated circuit of a CPU.
kMMW TIL Switzerland has enough nuclear blast shelters to accommodate 114% of their population