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TIL When Usain Bolt Was Asked How He Could Run So Quickly He Responded, “I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared"

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NXmlb TIL meteorological officer Mike Fraser was mauled by a great white shark off New Zealand's subantarctic Campbell Island on 24 April 1992, and was subject to a 2,000 kilometer rescue by helicopter.
MeO7A TIL that the originally Irish name prefix “Mc” means “son” and “O’” means “descendant of”
j6Kdj TIL a Brazilian priest tied himself to 1,000 balloons and disappeared for months, until his body was found in the Atlantic
VM9dG TIL since India has more than 400 million vegetarians, every packaged food or toothpaste in India must have a mark to distinguish whether it is vegetarian or non-vegetarian. The vegetarian symbol is a green square with a green dot in the centre while the non vegetarian is the same in red.
bVy7 TIL In Norway there is a fortress called Akershus. It is believed that whoever controls Akershus also rules over Norway. However the fortress has survived every siege in the last 700 years.