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ol8W TIL A biker gang provides protection to sexually abused/abused children, that are too scared or hurt from the abuse, they’ve helped many kids and most gain the confidence to testify in court. They are all volunteers and put up to 20 hours a week in it.
J1mPj TIL that Kenya's Agnes Jebet Ngetich set the 10 km run world record in Valencia, breaking the previous record by 28 seconds. En route to this time, she also broke the 5 km run world record by 6 seconds and also holds the second fastest half marathon mark in history, at 1 hour 3 minutes and 4 sec.
9wQgQ TIL about the The Difficult Conversations Lab where strangers who strongly disagree on a controversial topic are matched up to debate.
80g4 TIL that in 1968, science fiction writer and atheist Isaac Asimov published “Asimov’s guide to the Bible”. Asimov treats the secular aspects of the Bible with intellectual instead of theological commentary.
D1ygP TIL farts don’t dissipate easily in space and a particularly smelly astronaut, while in the space shuttle’s middeck, would position his butt next to an air hose that led to the ISS and fire away. He called it “sending emails” to the ISS