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TIL Paula Radcliffe, current marathon world record holder, is an asthmatic

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oRKvY TIL:In 1523, Charles V allowed the construction of a cathedral choir and main altar within the Mesquita, a famed mosque in Cordoba, Spain. Charles later regretfully declared, “You have built what you or others might have built anywhere, but you have destroyed something that was unique in the world.”
EYXw TIL Female North Korean soldiers wear high-heels
oBMjW TIL that NATO made wildly false claims about losses they had inflicted on their adversaries in the Kosovo War, with the real numbers of enemy vehicles destroyed differing from official figures by as much as "3 tanks, not 120; 18 armored personnel carriers, not 220; 20 artillery pieces, not 450"
9Y8jp TIL Marie Antoinette's last words were "Pardon me sir, I did not do it on purpose" after she accidentally stepped on her executioner's foot.
gMrXy World record after world record after world record