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TIL the world record for longest time standing on one leg is 76 hours and 40 minutes set by Suresh Arulanantham Joachim in 1997.

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d8lM7 TIL In northern Thailand, a conservationist named Richard Lair put together the Thai Elephant Orchestra, in which 16 elephants play specially developed instruments like steel drums and even harmonicas.
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neAoG TIL that in 1403, at the Battle of Shrewsbury when future King Henry V of England was 16 he was shot in the face by an arrow. The royal physician, while using honey as an antiseptic, crafted a specially designed tool to successfully extract the embedded arrowhead without doing any further damage.