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

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KnQB TIL that there’s a prestigious college to train nannies for the rich and famous. Norland College is “nearly impossible” to get into, and the current nanny for Prince George and Princess Charlotte was trained there.
8akLa TIL of The Existence of the “27 Club”, The cultural phenomenon when a popular musical artist, actor or athlete dies at the age of 27.
e04JL TIL that, in order to become an astronaut, you need to know stuff like survival skills, robotics, how to fly an airplane, and both english and Russian. You also need a bachelor's degree in a nature science.
wLa6M TIL The half-life of an isotope of Tellerium is 160 Trillion times greater than the Universe's Age (Aprox. 13.8 billion) . The very-long-lived radioisotope Tellerium-128 thus has the longest known half-life among all the Radionuclides of around 2,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years!
neYVP TIL about Lepersonnite, an extremely rare rare earth mineral only found in Shinkolobwe deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the only mineral in which the chemical element Gadolinium, otherwise too reactive to exist, is found in nature. 400 tonnes of Gadolinium are produced yearly.