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TIL Your Average Fit Human Can Outrun a Deer. Deer sprint; Humans can run a marathon

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16W98 TIL that Hollywood's first Chinese-American film star Anna May Wong had to support herself by becoming an Australian vaudeville chanteuse, a British theatrical luminary and a B-film pulp diva because of the shortage of roles for Asian actors and Hollywood tending to cast white actors in those roles
Wb59 TIL There’s a hedgehog cuddling cafe in Tokyo
epVQn TIL that the Embassy of Spain to the Holy See is the oldest embassy in the world. It was created in 1480 by King Ferdinand the Catholic. It is housed in the same building (Palace of Spain) since 1647, and the square in Rome where the palace is located takes the name from it (Piazza di Spagna)
l7GxG TIL Stan LePard created the song 'Velkommen' adapted by Windows 98/2k/XP during OS installs, a song many people didn't even hear it if the sound drivers weren't installed yet
KgQ6 TIL that spammers will pay people in countries such as India & China pennies per hour to continuously solve CAPTCHA codes.