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TIL: Usain Bolt Has Never Run a Mile

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DQKpD TIL that the movie character Raymond from the Academy Award winning movie Rain man was based on real life savant, Kim Peek. He could simultaneously read the left side and right side pages of a book at the same time and had complete memory of over 12,000 books.
e0Dv6 TIL: After the conclusion of the First World War, the French government declared a "Zone Rouge" deemed unfit for human habitation.
jNg1M TIL Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset for 30 consecutive days is associated with anticancer proteomic signature and upregulates key regulatory proteins of glucose and lipid metabolism, circadian clock, DNA repair, cytoskeleton remodeling, immune system and cognitive function
8ajea TIL in World War 2, countries had sold off most of their gold as well as their foreign investments, to pay for the war. By 1947, the United States had accumulated 70% of the world’s gold reserves.
AN0O7 TIL From 1898 to 2006 Americans paid a 3% tax on all long distance telephone calls in order to pay for the Spanish American War.