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TIL: The longest recorded time spent awake was set in 1965 a high school student stayed awake for 264 hours (about 11 days)

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0w0LL TIL that the largest concentration of leopards in the world is on the outskirts of the city of Mumbai, with more than 22 million city residents living close by.
8NdL TIL that the vital antibody-based Ebola drug ZMapp is produced in large scale in the Nicotiana benthamiana plant- tobacco.
yV8rp TIL: One of the generals in the Second Liberian Civil War tried magical invisibility spells in combat & when they failed, ran into fights nude to avoid his clothes being seen. Afterward he tried to reform his image by converting to Christianity, but the public doubted the honesty of his conversion.
EgejW TIL 6 years after Martha Stewart started her own catering company in 1976, a publisher (impressed with her chef skills) got her to write a cookbook which launched her career. By 1999, she consolidated her "media empire" & took it public which made her the first female self-made billionaire in the US