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TIL that the element Francium is so rare, that only 30 grams of it exists within the earth’s crust.

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xl4g TIL the 1904 Olympic marathon ‘winner’ cheated by using a car, the second place finisher drank brandy mixed with rat poison, another athlete was chased off course by dogs, and another ate a rotten apple during the run.
nWj7P TIL farmers collected the bones from major battlefields like the Battle of Waterloo and the Battle of Austerlitz to crush them and re-fertilize their depleted farm soil.
Wkro8 TIL: The Harlem Globetrotters have multiple women on the team
YdNd TIL the fastest that humans have ever travelled on land is 760MPH (ThrustSSC). In the air, 4520MPH (X-15 Jet). And in space, 24,791MPH (Apollo 10 upon re-entry).
86WV TIL Malcolm X avoided military service after being declared “mentally disqualified” because he told draft board officials that he wanted to “steal us some guns, and kill us [some] crackers.”