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TIL In 2011 Justin Gaitlin managed to run the 100 metres in 9.45 seconds. This time was accomplished on a Japanese TV show with the aid from a series of fans blowing him forward, which are not allowed for actual record setting times.

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R59g9 TIL that the earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking appears in modern-day Yemen in southern Arabia in the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines.
J1lv1 TIL Sacramento, CA built a train station in the middle of a grass field, with a full parking lot inaccessible from any roads, and can only be reached via a 1/4 mile (0.4 km) trail.
GYZmG TIL Michigan has a bottle deposit of 10 cents, instead of the usual 5 cents. Their recycle rate is 97%, compared to 70% of states with bottle deposits, compared to 33% for states without any deposit laws
xVAJD TIL In 2014, the beard of Tutankhamun's golden mask fell off during a cleaning process in the Egyptian Museum. The workers used epoxy glue to reattach the beard, but that was not the professional method. This led to a permanent damage to the mask. They were prosecuted for this in 2016.
X0DXD TIL octopuses have 9 brains and 3 hearts