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BgbLd TIL in 1983 Albert Rizzo set the WR for the longest time treading water at 108 hours. He performed the feat in the sea at Gżira in Malta, eating only liquid food. He extended his record to 132 hours in 1984 before the Guinness Book of Records stopped monitoring the record in 1986 due to its danger.
BrlPx TIL that Willem Dafoe has been acting in movies every year since 1982. He still has a bunch of filming projects lined up for 2021.
R7Eyw TIL in 1879 it was estimated the Oxford English Dictionary to take 10 years for completion, but in five years they'd only reached the word "Ant". After crowdsourcing readers to help it was completed 44 years later. The publishers now estimate it would take a single person 120 years to just type it.
b9rJZ TIL Tornadoes rotate in a counterclockwise motion in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. This is due to the Coriolis effect.
JyYQ TIL in 1992 a South Carolina man tied his wife’s hands and feet with rope, covered her mouth and eyes with duct tape, turned on a video camera, and raped her. At his trial, the man testified, “No, I didn’t rape my wife. How can you rape your own wife?” The jury took less than an hour to acquit him