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TIL The current Guinness world record for the loudest burp is 109.9 dB, set by Paul Hunn in August 2009. This is louder than a jackhammer at a distance of 1 m.

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MM5V TIL Katt Williams is a father of eight: one biological son and seven adopted children
Zp7vR TIL of Eddie Gaedel, the shortest baseball player in MLB history. At 3'7", he wore the number "⅛" as part of a publicity stunt, but actually was awarded an at-bat during a double header in 1951. He walked on four pitches.
1kkD TIL Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner, was involved in a plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. She spend 7 months in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk normally again. In 1936, she returned to the US olympic team and won gold in the relay.
b6Bv4 TIL that the Italian royal family was banished from the country in 1946 and were not allowed to return until 2002.
grng4 TIL that English-born striker Ben Brereton Diaz was called up by the Chilean national team after a streamer noticed his second nationality while playing Football Manager and started a social media campaign for his call-up