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TIL that humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet, able to beat horses (and everything else) in marathon distance races.

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0dMe1 TIL the the Royal Canadian Mounted Police place undercover sky marshals on every Canadian flight to Ronald Regan Washington National Airport
4XpZo TIL that, despite having the largest US alligator population, it has been more than 200 years since the first and last Louisianan died to an alligator.
koNg TIL Heath Ledger gave Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros cash so they could record their first album
mxgnY TIL the neutron is unstable. On its own, the neutron undergoes beta decay into an electron, proton, and antineutrino with a half life of 15 minutes. (In nuclei the neutron can be stable.)
kOe14 TIL J.K. Simmons was (and still is) the voice of the yellow M&M, and Billy West is the voice of the red M&M