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TIL: Usain Bolt Has Never Run a Mile

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NXLW6 TIL that more people have been in space than have sailed non-stop around the world.
jBoN TIL that the decisive vote to ratify the 19th Amendment came from from a legislator who switched after receiving a telegram from his mother asking him to “be a good boy”.
KVE6 TIL Stanley Kubrick was asked not to depict room #217 (featured in the book) in The Shining, because future guests at the Lodge might be afraid to stay there. So a nonexistent room, #237, was substituted in the film.
pYY08 TIL beetles make up roughly 25% of all life on planet earth
Zp594 TIL King Charles VI of France, during one of his first recorded bouts of madness, killed one of his own knights and several soldiers before being pinned to the ground by his men.