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TIL that future anchorman Dan Rather was standing 30 yards from the grassy knoll during the Kennedy assassination

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dQOZ TIL that the extra shoelace holes at the top of running shoes are used to create a “heel lock” or “lace lock” to prevent blisters.
JVgm TIL Lance Armstrong, at the height of his doping behaviour in the 2000s, made a $100k donation to the international cycling federation to ‘fund the fight against doping’
j9gR TIL The wolf’s jaw can exert 1500 pounds of pressure per square inch, twice the jaw pressure of a German Shepherd. Wolves can crush large bones in just a few bites.
awyJ TIL that it is possible to walk from US soil to Russian soil from December to June as an ice bridge forms between the Diomede islands
Y7vXG TIL Stephen King wrote The Running Man in a single week. This is in contrast to his normal 2,000-word or 10-page daily output, so that writing a novel normally takes him approximately 3 months.