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TIL the world record for non-stop Pushups: 10,507 by Minoru Yoshida, 33 years ago!

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yQlXV TIL that despite its name, West Virginia’s “New River” is one of the oldest rivers in the world. It cuts through the middle of the Appalachian Mountains, themselves a remnant from the supercontinent Pangea. This is because it is probably older than either.
WoZN TIL while filming “Predator,” Jesse Ventura saw in the wardrobe department that his biceps were 1" bigger than Arnold Schwarzenegger’s. He challenged Arnold to a bicep-measuring contest…and lost. Arnold had told the wardrobe department to lie to Ventura so he could win the bet.
E1k7x TIL in a space of 58 days between December 15, 1951 and February 11, 1952 there were three airplane crashes in Elizabethtown, NJ.
jNwwN TIL the flag of Denmark is the oldest flag in the world still in use (since 1219).
GAL77 TIL of Two-Gun Cohen, a British/Canadian adventurer who was a friend of Sun Yat-sen, helped China get weapons when Japan invaded in 1937, did work for the British in WW2, and when he died in 1970, his funeral was attended by both factions of the Chinese government.