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TIL after coming to the U.S as part of operation paperclip, Wernher Von Braun married his first cousin and moved to Alabama

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x6JXk TIL Yiannis Kouros won the 1988 Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon (537 mi, 864 km) even though he started 12 hours behind the rest of the field after the organizers of the race challenged him to do so. In total, he won 5 of the 9 times the event was held.
4k91N TIL that In Strasbourg, Alsace (now part of France), there was a strange phenomenon in 1518 where people started dancing uncontrollably for days without rest. It may have been due to stress-induced hysteria or poisoning. This phenomenon is now referred to as The Dancing Plague of 1518.
nWDwb TIL Juliana Buhring, with just eight months of cycling experience, became the fastest woman to cycle around the world, covering over 18,000 miles in 152 days
e0DM5 TIL I learned giant herds of goats are used to eat brush in high risk areas around CA to help prevent wildfires.
n7EY TIL in 1959 the “inch” was adjusted by 2 millionths of an inch, to make it equal exactly 25.4 millimeters.