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TIL that there is a guy who ran 50 marathons in each of the 50 states in 50 consecutive days.

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LkKvP TIL heart surgeon Ellsworth Wareham lead and completed more than 12,000 surgeries up until he was 74 when he then assisted and trained other doctors until he was 95. He drove until 100 and did yard work until the age of 104 when he passed away at home peacefully with his wife of 68 years at his side
EgErW TIL that Charles Best, who assisted Fredrick Banting in his discovery of insulin, was chosen as Banting's assistant by coin flip.
o8x7 TIL that ancient Indians had concepts that revolved around time dilation and the idea that time flows at different rates in different “universes”
V0mG TIL A short film was made in 1976 where a man drives 85 mph through Paris while ignoring red lights, driving the wrong way on one-way streets, and driving on the sidewalk to avoid a rubbish truck to get to his date. The director was rumored to be arrested on it’s first screening.
0PAy TIL that in 2007, an elderly man visited Auschwitz and recognized his father as one of the SS officers.