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TIL Marathon runner drank urine and ate bats, snakes and lizards to survive in the desert after he got lost for 10 days.

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d8xlr TIL About the 19th century female sculptor Camille Claudel. Regarded as a genius in her time, she was hated by her mother and her brother for her artistic lifestyle. They had her committed to different asylums for the last 30 years of her life, and took all her money. She was buried with the poor.
0w7e5 TIL In Italy they can ask you a certification of "being alive". People can self-certificate of being alive. Death can't be self-certificated, though.
nWrQo TIL the term “420” originated from a high school in San Rafael, CA
ADrD7 TIL about a jewish tradition where couples are wed in a cemetary to combat plagues
lD71 TIL a man got to push the detonator on the old Woodrow Wilson Bridge demolition because he won a contest for having the shittiest commuter experience with the bridge.