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TIL of the Barkley Marathons, a race so intense and difficult that only 14 people have finished it since its inception in 1986.

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0wMyN TIL about 4'33", read four thirty-three. It's a music piece by experimental composer John Cage, and instructs the performer(s) to not play the their instruments for the entire four minutes, thirty-three seconds.
brep TIL There are still 5 people alive who are born in the 1800s, and they are all women.
5YrPD TIL about The Wrecking Crew, a group of Los Angeles studio musicians that played on hundreds of now-classic records in the 1960s and '70s. Sometimes, the only members of famous bands to appear on their own records were the vocalists; the Wrecking Crew played the music.
x6klB TIL that USPS ships day old baby chicks in the mail
epwGL TIL about "The Pearl": An underground pornographic magazine issued monthly between 1879 and 1880. Its contents were three serial erotic tales simultaneously, devoted to sex in high society, incest, and flagellation. It was shut down by the British authorities for violating standards of obscenity.