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TIL when Guinness World Records stopped monitoring the record for the longest time to stay awake in 1997, the record holder at the time was Robert McDonald who went 453 hours 40 minutes (18 days 21 hours 40 minutes) without sleeping in 1986.

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4XxVJ TIL that the longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long.
a8W4b TIL about the Slave Narrative project that took place during the Great Depression. Created by the WPA, out-of-work writers were hired to collect the life stories of former slaves. 2,300 first-person accounts were recorded and archived.
wBNE TIL that the “we ain’t found shit!” trooper from Spaceballs is Tim Russ, who also played Tuvok in Star Trek Voyager