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TIL the Chinese women who presented the medals in the 2008 Olympics had to be 168-174 centimetres, weigh up to 55 kg, and have an upper to lower-body ratio of 11:13. They trained daily by balancing books on their heads, clenching chopsticks between their teeth, and jamming paper between their knees

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j6VQQ TIL that in 1999, Sergio Motsoeneng ran part of the Comrades Marathon, then went into a mobile toilet to switch places with his twin brother. They won 9th place and the equivalent of about $500, but got caught when a newspaper published photos of them wearing their watches on opposite wrists.
m1J1E TIL Mongolia has about 4 million horses, 3.4 million people, and south asia+southeast asia have about 2 million horses, 2.5 billion people.
xVVOB TIL of the Nationality Rooms. 30 classrooms in the University of Pittsburgh that are each built as a museum grade representation of a different country's culture.
QJLBd TIL rescue dogs searching the ruins of 9/11 found too few survivors that it caused them depression because they felt they had failed. The rescue workers pretended and hide themselves in the rubble in order to give the dogs successful finds and keep them motivated.
neYkW TIL in 1936 Orson Welles produced and directed a version of Shakespeare's Macbeth with an all-Black cast.