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TIL the girl from PlayStation's 1999 "Mental Wealth" commercial is now a professional photographer

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m1rGR TIL the rarest and purest Arabian horse breed is actually Egyptian
grDy8 TIL Curt Richter found that rats placed in water drowned within 15 minutes—unless they were rescued once. After experiencing a brief rescue, those same rats swam for over 60 hours, driven by the hope of being saved again. This suggests that hope alone can push us beyond our limits.
4k9Lo TIL there is a Oil Massage Championship
6Ew47 TIL about the Ice block expedition of 1959. Glassvatt successfully transported 3 tons of ice from Mo i Rana to Libreville without any refrigeration , losing only 11% of ice weight in the journey which took 27 days to complete over 10,000 km(~6200miles).
PYK1E TIL that upon hearing of Napoleon's abdication, the Duke of Wellington - a famously stoic individual - broke into an impromptu flamenco dance, spinning around on his heels and clicking his fingers.