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TIL in 2009 comedian Eddie Izzard ran 43 marathons in 51 days, despite having only 5 weeks training and no prior history of long distance running.

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1aE1V TIL that Lorri Bagley, the actress who played the woman in the famous skinny dipping scene from the film Tommy Boy, had actually dated Chris Farley in 1993.
5w89 TIL: In 2006 Ireland blocked the US from transporting arms to Israel through Shannon Airport, “segments of the Irish public see the airport as a symbol of Irish complicity in perceived US wrongdoing in the Middle East.”
ADAM4 TIL of of Thomas Granger, one of the first people executed in the colonies, a Pilgrim teenager. He was hung for having sex with many animals including sheep "too numerous to count". And one turkey.
xV4W0 TIL: Sun Quan, Emperor of Wu in ancient China, ordered his son Sun Ba to kill himself and exiled Sun He as he was fed up with their rivalry over the throne. He then made his youngest crown prince.
ONe7 TIL the 1978 “UFO abduction” of Frederick Valentich has been solved: out searching for UFOs, the inexperienced pilot saw “4 points of light of an elongated UFO”. Recent astronomical simulations show a perfect diamond formed by Mercury, Venus, Mars and nearby star Antares.