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TIL that the world record for the most consecutive push ups (i.e. nonstop) by a man was 10,507 reps in 1980 and 302 reps by a woman in 2014

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LQAm TIL in the UK, children over the age of 5 can legally drink alcohol, so long as they’re in either their house or a friend’s.
1aojD TIL Nasa photographed a naturally occurring rectangular iceberg a mile long. They suspect it had recently broken off from an ice shelf. These objects are not unknown. They are known as 'tabular icebergs.'
VM6kk TIL that Sony only released the original Playstation because Nintendo severed their partnership to build a gaming system with a CD drive.
6Y4l TIL: That Golden Retrievers are the closest descendants of the now extinct Russian Tracker, a breed reportedly so intelligent it kept flocks of sheep alive for months, with no human help.
J1Q4j TIL Eric Idle of Monty Python responded to physicst Brian Cox's criticism of his "Galaxy song" by creating a sketch where Cox gets run over by Stephen Hawking