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TIL during 1904 Olympics men's marathon winner was disqualified as he rode in a car for part of the race. The actual winner was near collapse and hallucinating, an effect of being fed brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers. The fourth-place finisher took a nap after eating spoiled apples.

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QJvp9 TIL that "empty" space is home to energy field fluctuations and thus is not truly empty
VM8Bp TIL in 1981 the body of a man was discovered by a church in St bees, England. He was wrapped in a lead sheet so his nails and stomach contents were nearly perfectly preserved, his skin was pinkish and liquid blood was found in his chest. He was A.De Lucy, a knight who died in the crusades in 1333
0wD1p TIL: Despite thinking of ourselves as the masters of the planet, the average Hurricane releases energy equivalent of our largest ever nuclear bomb every 60 minutes and produces 5 times the energy the entire human race uses in a year.
5Y6Dp TIL that the "seductive nature" of the Green M&M is a reference to an urban legend during the 1970s that green M&Ms were aphrodisiacs
yQb1X TIL that Clara Peller, the actress behind the "Where's the beef?" slogan, had her contract with Wendy's terminated after she appeared in a tomato sauce commercial in which she said "I found it". Wendy's executive Denny Lynch stated, "Clara can find the beef only in one place, and that is Wendy's".