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TIL: A rhinoceros beetles strength capacity is the same as a human lifting nine male elephants over their head

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m8dP TIL the man who wrote the Patriot Act is on the Board of Directors of News Corp
bgX9 TIL that São Paulo, the world’s fourth largest metropolis, banned all outdoor advertising with no ill effect. “The law is now so popular that some companies that were able through legal action to maintain some outdoor presence chose not to, so as not to be seen as flying in the face of [it]”
1a157 TIL that the Oneida silverware company started as a utopian society where they would have post menopausal women teach teenage boys about sex
XEwOQ TIL that a child prince from the Khwarezmian Empire was sold as a slave after the Mongols invaded their land and killed his family. He arrived in Egypt and rose among the ranks until he became Sultan. He then served the Mongols one of their first major defeats in history. A Historical turning point.
Orn7 TIL that the London Bridge in Lake Havasu, Arizona is the same bridge that spanned the Thames river in London, England, relocated in 1968.