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TIL that Andre “the Giant” Roussimoff once drank 119 beers in 6 hours. He passed out in a hotel lobby but was too large for anyone to help him return to his room so he slept in the lobby all night.

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Y7lr TIL that in 1870 Gilbert Bates marched 400 miles through England carrying the American flag to prove that the English did not hate Americans. He was honored as a hero.
6EAdJ TIL the descendants of the ancient Assyrians still exist in their ancestral homeland, and continue to identify as Assyrian. They constitute over 2 million today, and speak the modernized form of the Aramaic language.
pYBGQ TIL that the rock climbing community has an agreed-upon difficulty scale they use to classify climbing routes. The highest difficulty level, 9C, has only been awarded to one route, named Silence, in central Norway. It was successfully climbed for the first and only time to date in 2018.
No0E TIL After a bank tried to foreclose on a man who never took out a mortgage, the man sued, won, and foreclosed on the bank after not being paid
K1aJ TIL Moulay Ismaïl King of Morocco (1672-1727) is alleged to have fathered a total of 867 children, widely considered the record number of offspring for any man throughout history that can be verified.