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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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kJARg TIL that before the raid of Osama Bin Laden in 2011, two 1:1 scaled versions of his Pakistani compound were built in the US, for SEALs to practice their raid on. The elevation of these test compounds was also built to be at the same level, to test the affect it would have on the raid helicopters.
XEEPk TIL that the "noon bell ritual" is the celebration of the succesful defense of Belgrad against the Ottoman Empire's siege in 1456
7xXp TIL Kodak discovered the US was testing atomic bombs because the corn husks used for packing material were fogging film because they had been exposed to radiation.
x6Pa1 TIL: that in 1676 a nun wrote a letter while claiming to be possessed by the devil.
LkyNP TIL Chicago is named the Windy City because in the mid 1800’s, journalists thought that the well to do and politicians were “windbags” that only cared about money.