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TIL that an Russian athlete ran out of the stadium during her own race to avoid being tested for drug abuse.

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KOMY6 TIL that numbness (and sometimes temporary paralysis) caused from falling asleep on your arm is a result of nerve compression and not loss of blood flow to the limb.
LAkd TIL Author J.D. Salinger stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day and carried a work in progress with him which would later become “Catcher in the Rye”
1anaX TIL that Stephen King bought the van that hit and nearly killed him, for $1500 to prevent fans from buying it, and he announced that he was ‘going to take a sledgehammer and beat it’.
MeDeK TIL: In 1911, Canadian prospector William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcrop that eventually yielded 13.5 million ounces of gold.
pdn8 TIL that if you don’t sleep, your brain cells soak in their own filth. Sleep may clear out nervous system metabolites, which are waste products that can be toxic.