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TIL that the Guinness World Record for the longest time a person has held their breath underwater is 24 min 37.36 seconds.

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nDRY TIL that a Viking General, Sigurd the Mighty, was killed by a severed head of his enemy. He had attached the severed head to his saddle and the heads teeth grazed his leg and gave him an infection that he died from.
wVjE TIL:4 women sued the Girls Gone Wild Series for Distress. An all female jury threw out the case.
KE9 TIL: Chipotle works with the food donation connection and donates their excess food from everyone of their locations to local charities and non profit organizations to help feed the homeless and less fortunate.
lQpG TIL that Avshalom Feinberg, an Israeli spy who helped the British defeat the Ottomans, was killed by Bedouins in the desert. His fate was unknown until after the 1967 Six-Day War when his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket to mark the spot where he lay.
yP0J TIL a man was executed for starting the Great Fire of London after he claimed he threw a fire-bomb through a bakery window. This was despite the fact that he was heavily crippled, the bakery had no windows, and it was proven at his trial that he was not even in the country at the time.