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TIL that during "Hell Week", a five and a half day stretch during the training/application phase, US Navy SEAL candidates sleep only a total of four total hours during the week, run more than 200 miles and do physical training for more than 20 hours a day.

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4Xx8o TIL the Mongols had a battle in Israel against the Mamluks (Egypt) and was the first permanent defeat for the Mongols
YJ1r TIL a banana is a berry
xV5w5 TIL that, while hospitalized after a 2008 plane crash, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker was in so much pain that he repeatedly called friends and offered them one million dollars to assist him in committing suicide. Hospital staff eventually took his phone away.
xV1W1 TIL that after John Muir recovered from temporary blindness,caused by a factory accident that shot a piece of metal into his eye, he dedicated his life to the environment and help established Yosemite, Sequoia, Mount Rainer, and the Grand Canyon as National Parks.
8apBL TIL Project Grizzly is a documentary about a Canadian man who, inspired by Robocop and a bear encounter, determined to make bear-proof body armor. In it he's beaten with 2X4s, thrown off a cliff, and slammed into by a truck at 50km/hr. It's one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite documentaries.