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TIL humans are just about the best endurance runners in the animal kingdom, including horses, and only get better the longer the distance.

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DAkV TIL of a plot to kill a man by giving him unlimited drinking credit and thus making him drink himself to death. He wouldn’t die even after they tried serving him antifreeze, turpentine, rat poison etc. He is known as ‘Durable Mike Malloy’ or 'Iron Mike’.
wG4W TIL There are thought to be 100,000 uncharted mountains under the sea.
GADlE TIL if you fill your lungs with 100% oxygen you can safely go ~8 minutes without breathing
kY54 TIL that an entire lake was drained by accidentally drilling into an underground salt mine pulling full size container ships into the hole.
awN6b TIL Some Louisiana Science Textbooks Used in Louisiana Schools Say That Scientists Think Dragons (Fire-Breathing Dinosaurs, technically) May Have Existed and That Humans Lived Alongside Dinosaurs