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TIL that 25% of all known animal species are beetles

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X0QDQ TIL that news of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's successful ascent of Everest in 1953 was one of the last major news events delivered to the world by runner.
X0eMP TIL Olympic medalist Eugène Balme, who won a bronze medal in men's shooting, committed suicide by shooting himself.
7r77r TIL The World Anti-Doping Agency restricted the use of caffeine in all Olympic events until 2004. The bar to fail a drug test for caffeine was 12 microgram/ml in urine, which means an Olympic athlete would have ingested the equivalent of 8 espressos in a few hours.
vPyLD TIL over the course of his 23 published adventures, Herge's Tintin was knocked unconscious 43 times. Between 1929 and 1973, he was hit with a rake, a brick, a whisky bottle, an oar, a giant apple, a camel femur, a block of ice, and countless punches and clubs.
yRAa TIL that Bethesda was offered to make a Game of Thrones themed Elder Scrolls game but they refused.