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grxK8 TIL Dashrath Manjhi, the "Mountain Man," spent 22 years carving a 110-meter path through a mountain using just a hammer and chisel. Motivated by grief after his wife died due to a long route to the hospital, he shortened the journey from 55 km to 15 km.
loPAa TIL 139 diners were offered an all-you-can-eat buffet at an upscale restaurant for either $4 or $8. They ate exactly the same food and the same amount, but those who paid $8 rated their meal an average of 11 % higher. The $4 diners were more likely to feel guilty and that they'd overeaten.
4XO7N TIL that both E.T. and Poltergeist were developed from a single unproduced movie called 'Night Skies'
4kpO6 TIL about Claudette Colvin. Sheis an American pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement and retired nurse aide. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman.
XKa8 TIL Serena and Venus Williams were 16 and 18 years old when they challenged any man outside the top 200 best tennis players in the world to beat them, Karsten Braasch the 203 player accepted the challenge and defeated them with 6-1 and 6-2, they later changed it to beating anyone outside of top 350.