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TIL the world record for long-distance archery is held by a guy with no arms.

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15ZX TIL 95% of the ocean is unexplored.
awnAo TIL the first person ever to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive was Annie Taylor on October 24, 1901. She hoped her feat would bring her fame and fortune but she died in poverty.
bQp4 TIL that the shortest commercial flight in the world is 2.8 km long and lasts 47 seconds
GY6lE TIL Greg Louganis cracked his head in the 1988 Olympics springboard preliminaries. He got 4 stitches and went on to win the gold medal the next day.
x69e0 TIL Kalaallisut is the principal language used by all native Greenlanders and most of them are bilingual in Danish, and trilingual, with English. But in Nunavut, Canada, young Inuit prefer to use English and most cannot speak in Inuktitut about everyday life