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TIL Cancun was founded by the Mexican government using computer models to find a nice spot for tourists

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9YmRB TIL of four interwoven studies of smokers, found that sadness increases cravings, frequency of smoking, and volume of puffs, and also predicts smoking relapses, even decades later.
WkyDL TIL Eddie Izzard ran 47 marathons in 52 days with only 5 weeks of training
wxp7 TIL that André The Giant had an operation in 1987 in which his size made it impossible for the anesthesiologist to estimate a dosage via standard methods; consequently, his alcohol tolerance (“it usually takes two liters of vodka just to make me feel warm inside”) was used as a guideline instead.
d8K6B TIL Nasa plans to probe Uranus in about 15 years
0JKR TIL that one of the first scientists to discover nitrous oxide completely missed its use as an anesthetic because he ended up just using it to get high (having first experimented on it to see if it could cure hangovers)