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TIL About the “ever presents”. A group of runners that have completed every London marathon since its inception. Now down to only 6 people.

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p8eve TIL of Charles Vance Millar, a Toronto lawyer who died in 1926 with no relatives. In his will, he left all his remaining assets (equivalent to $9 million CAD) to the woman who had the most babies within 10 years of his death, creating a "baby race" where woman competed to have the most babies.
ZpMgo TIL that gold medal winner Usain Bolt has three children whose names are Saint Leo, Olympia Lighting and Thunder.
Z8xnD TIL of "peine forte et dure", a type of torture used in the common law legal system when a person remained silent upon questioning. It consisted of progressively heavier stones placed upon the chest until either a plea was entered, or the person died. It’s been legal for ~500 years, until 1772.
0wVy1 TIL same-sex relations have been legal in the Netherlands since 1811.
Z8JrQ TIL about the Kentucky meat shower of 1876, where pieces of meat appeared to fall on Bath County. One theory is that a flock of vultures vomited in the area; the meat was said to taste like lamb or deer. Another is that the meat was a cyanobacteria which expands to a jelly-like mass when wet.