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TIL that Comedian Eddie Izzard Completed 27 Marathons in 27 Days
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TIL that Milwaukee does actually translate to "The Good Land", but not in Algonquin
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TIL the photo of Salvador Dalí jumping and painting while water and live cats fly through the air took 5 hours and 26 tries because they couldn't get the timing right. The "floating" objects hung from wires or were held up off-camera. Dalí’s canvas frame was empty in the pic; he painted it in later.
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The longest human tunnel traveled through by a dog skateboarder is 30 people and was achieved by Otto the Skateboarding Bulldog in Lima, Peru, on November 8 2015.
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TIL that “Ukraine” roughly means “Borderlands”, and was referred to as “the Ukraine” during Soviet times, but no longer.
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TIL that part of the reason Francis Bellamy was asked to write the Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag was to market American Flags to schools.