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TIL the world record for longest breath held underwater is 24 minutes 37 seconds by Budimir Šobat from Croatia. The average person can achieve about 2 minutes - afterwards less and less oxygenated blood reaches our brain which at around 6 minutes forces a blackout to trigger automatic breathing.

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LkDl9 TIL singers with accents (e.g British accent) sing with an "American" or "neutral" accent because it is simply the easiest way to sing. Words are drawn out and more powerfully pronounced making the accents "neutral". It's not done intentionally.
XE8XR TIL NBA player George Hill owns an 850-acre ranch in Texas filled with kangaroos, zebras, ostriches, wildebeests, elk, antelope, Arabian oryx, red lechwes, New Zealand red stags, kudus, and other exotic animals
yQ9gX TIL that the US flag was not the first flag on the moon. It was a "flag" from the University of Bern (Switzerland) that was used to capture solar wind particles, and was planted first to maximise the experiment's duration.
QN0BL TIL Jain scriptures dated from the 6th century B.C. propose the existence of "nigodas," tiny creatures living everywhere, in the tissues of plants and animals. It wasn't until 1646 when Athanasius Kircher wrote that milk and vinegar were "abound with an innumerable multitude of worms"
ZAOo TIL that a North Korean man allegedly, during a recent famine, dug up his grandchild’s corpse and ate it.