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TIL the record for most push-ups in one day is 46,001. The record was achieved by Charles Servizio at the age of 43 in 1993.

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eDL5 TIL: Bhutan have banned the sales of pesticides and are set to become the world’s first organic country.
ZpDYv TIL that everything that was ciezed from Osama bin Ladens computer is publicly available.
4krDR TIL Michael Phelps has won a record 23 Olympic gold medals; No other Olympian has won more than 9.
D1Ybp TIL that after the Taliban blew up two giant 4th-century Buddha statues, a network of caves were discovered which held ancient Buddhist paintings and another giant Buddha statue. This previously undiscovered statue was 62 ft tall, bigger than the two that were destroyed.
7rAr TIL of a 1970s childrens book called Show Me!, it depicts children from ages 6 to their early teens exploring eachother sexually. It received many awards and good reviews, but was pulled from shelves do to the sex abuse hysteria.