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TIL The FitnessGram PACER Test maxes out 247 laps. The only person to ever reach 247 laps was middle school student Dennis Mejia in 2016

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D1roP TIL that a village in India plants 111 trees everytime a girl child is born there!
bk1Q TIL Both of Jack Black’s parents were Aerospace Engineers who worked on the Apollo 11 mission.
nNYd TIL David Lunt was shot through the skull and brain by a revolver and not only lived after the shot, but also felt no pain from it. He died 67 days later and his autopsy revealed that the gunshot was what killed him. Coroners still don’t know how Lunt survived for so long and felt no pain.
VMRQ0 TIL: the most celebrated 'toilet attendant' is Victoria Hughes, who for three decades served in a female public toilets in Bristol. Unexpected national fame came her way at the age of 80 in 1977 when she published her memoirs, called Ladies Mile. She revealed to being a confidante of prostitutes.
QN75p TIL that in 1953, Swanson overestimated the number of frozen turkeys that it would sell on Thanksgiving by 260 tons. The company decided to slice up the extra meat and repackage it--creating the first ever TV dinner.