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TIL Usain Bolt ate 1,000 Chicken McNuggets over 10 days during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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rNege TIL Even though he received surgery to correct his nearsightedness, Horace Grant continued to wear his trademark goggles on the court during his NBA career after hearing from parents that he was a inspiration to children who wore glasses.
GYLlg TIL there is a Solar Library containing the Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, stored in a 5D optical data storage made of quartz, in the glovebox of the Cherry Red Tesla Roadster orbiting the Sun. The Arch library will orbit the Sun for at least 30 millions of years inside Elon's Tesla Roadster
07Oy TIL British empire, “the empire on which the sun never sets”, was the largest empire in history. By 1922 it held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world’s population at the time. The empire covered more than 13,012,000 sq mi, almost a quarter of the Earth’s total land area.
aQDJ TIL Stockholm, Sweden tested a “Speed Camera Lottery” where speed limit-abiding drivers were automatically entered into a drawing to win a prize pool funded out of fines paid by speeders.
ANNll TIL that the Jamaican flag is currently the only national flag that does not contain a shade of the colours red, white, or blue.