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TIL that the Guinness World Records no longer recognize the fattest animal as a record in order to prevent compulsive overeating.

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W7jQo TIL in the 1960s, Aussie athlete Reg Spiers mailed himself home from London to Australia in a wooden crate to make it back for his daughter’s birthday. He endured delays, extreme heat, and flipped upside down in Bombay. Once in Perth, he broke out of a storage shed, hitched a ride, and made it home.
xVvMD TIL The First successful Kidney Transplant took place in 1954 when Ronald Herrick, 23, had agreed to donate one of his kidneys to his identical twin brother, Richard, who was dying of kidney failure
VNn0 TIL An Alaskan man found a Soccerball that had washed up ashore with Japanese writing on it. He discovered that the ball belonged to a Japanese teenager who lost it in a Tsunami
6EER8 TIL Lewis and Clark's camp sites can be identified by the Mercury-laden Latrine Pits
VKxm TIL that 4chan once tried to send Justin Bieber to North Korea, by exploiting an oversight whereby there was no country restrictions allowing 4chan to rig the votes.