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TIL Coca-Cola in the Maldives is made from seawater

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yQywv TIL about Dean Karnazes, a man who can run without ever getting tired due to his exponentially high lactate threshold. He was able to run a Marathon in the south pole at -25C and run for three consecutive nights before having to stop for sleep.
nWMMP TIL your fingerprints aren't truly unique... The odds of two people having the exact same fingerprint are around 1 in 64 billion. Since an estimated 108 billion people have been born throughout history, probability suggests that many individuals must share identical fingerprint pattern.
P1Jme TIL that in 1946, New Zealand accidentally held its election late by 2 months because someone “forgot to mark the calendar, [and] forgot the last election was held earlier than usual”
a8mKL TIL that since the 1950s Alberta has had an aggressive program to keep the province almost 100% rat-free
VpEQ TIL The U.S. is one of only a few countries that does not guarantee retroactive amelioration (reduction of prison sentence based on changes in the law)