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e0xvL TIL pedestrianism was a famous sport in the 19th century where people would compete to walk the furthest distance in the shortest amount of time. A famous challenge was walking 1000 miles in 1000 hours, first completed by Robert Barclay Allardice in 1809.
R7BBa TIL 75% of the world lives off of 12 crops and 5 animals. The crops are; sugar cane, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, cassava, tomatoes, bananas, onions, apples, and grapes. The animals are; Cattle, Chicken, Pig, Goat, and Sheep.
lo7Br TIL of Emad Salem, the FBI informant involved in the first WTC bombing whose offers to thwart the bombing was ignored by his FBI handlers
0wXop TIL the tallest living tree in the world is a redwood, named Hyperion, located in a secret and remote area of the Redwood National and State Parks. Measured at 155.5 m (379.1 ft) tall, it stands taller than Big Ben and the Statue of Liberty!
8aNnX TIL in September 1554 Mary I of England started to show the first signs of pregnancy. When by July the following year she still hadn't given birth, the Venetian ambassador Giovanni Michieli mocked that the pregnancy would more likely "end in wind rather than anything else".