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TIL the oldest person to ever complete a marathon is Fauja Singh, who ran the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 2011 at the ripe old age of 100 years - also making him the only ever centenarian to do such! He completed the 42 kilometres in a bit over 8 hours.

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wLNo7 TIL ”Days of our lives” is one of the longest running soap operas, spanning over seven decades of regular screenings with almost 14k episodes (and counting). Some actors have appeared as different characters and some who died in real life still appear years later in flashbacks with unused footage.
M77RW TIL that sunsets on Mars are blue
8gLZ TIL Bill Murray once got lost in the jungles of Bali and put on an impromptu show for the villagers
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Lk4gr TIL: In 2016 2 French cargo planes arrived in the Uk as an emergency biscuit import from France, due to fears of a national biscuit shortage, after a Mcvities biscuit factory closed down.