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TIL a man had the hiccups for 68 years straight. They finally stopped one year before he died.

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oooA TIL in 2000, the destroyer USS The Sullivans was the target of a failed terror plot in the Port of Aden; the bombers’ suicide boat was so overloaded with explosives that it sank. The culprits were able to salvage the explosives, and 9 months later, used them to attack the USS Cole in the same port.
xVyb TIL a graduate student mistook two unproved theorems in statistics that his professor wrote on the chalkboard for a homework assignment. He solved both within a few days.
l6RV TIL that there’s more people speaking french in Africa than in France
lovv1 TIL Bananas get their curve because they grow towards the Sun.
rNWGM TIL men overestimate how fast they can run, and have an exaggerated idea of their physical fitness.