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TIL Miguel Indurain, 5-time Tour de France winner, had a resting heart rate of just 28 bpm

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mxMoM TIL in fiscal year 2013 the IKEA Catalogue was printed in more than double the amount of copies than the Bible, despite only appearing in 43 countries.
449a TIL that “gorilla” comes from a Greek word meaning “a tribe of hairy women.”
69v5w TIL Crablike bodies are so evolutionarily favorable that they’ve evolved at least five different times (carcinization)
N7RGP TIL about the "Curse of the 9th." Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, & Dvorak died after writing their 9th symphony, so Mahler believed the 9th symphony was destined to be a his last. Although afraid to write his 9th, he eventually did & died before being able to complete his 10th fulfilling the curse.
gMEJ4 TIL the Olympic Games were not the only games in Ancient Greece, there were three more and all together are known as the Panhellenic Games.