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TIL the longest & straightest overland route on earth is the most complicated deadly path to travel and no one has supposedly done it.

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6EdNZ TIL the word Gymnasium comes from the Greek word Gymnazein which means to exercise naked.
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B0Zr TIL The word “electrocute” is a combination of the words electro and execute, meaning you were killed by electricity. So if you don’t die, you were not electrocuted, you were shocked.
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