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TIL Johnny Knoxville Turned Down A Role On SNL In Favor Of Jackass

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neVkd TIL of Rosie Ruiz, a 26 year old woman who won the Boston Marathon with one of the best times, only to be found out she had emerged from the spectators near the finish line. She'd previously rode the subway for the New York marathon too.
85YL TIL that the genetic testing of a boy who died 12,500 years ago proved that descendants of all Native Americans, including South & Central American tribes, can be traced back at least 24,000 years to a group of early Asians and Europeans who mated near Lake Baikal in what is now Siberia.
0w5EN TIL IKEA has complete ownership over their supply chain of products, even growing theor own wood (forest ownership), and uses approximately 1 percent of all lumber usage globally.
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1LZ7 TIL unlike most Buddhist monks, the Dalai Lama is a meat eater. In the 1960s, he tried being vegetarian for a bit but had to give it up after he got sick with hepatitis