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TIL that Humans will create more information in the form of data in the next 2 days than was created in all of history up until the year 2003.

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WkPVA TIL the Tarahuma of the Sierra Madre Occidental have a reputation as incredible long distance runners. From 1992 to 1998, 35 Tarahumas ran in 8 ultra-marathons in the US. Most finished in the top 10 with 4 outright wins and 2 course records.
BlMW TIL: At 0.21% of the total population, the United States has the lowest percentage of its population living in its capital city in the world
v1G9D TIL that a marine scientist accidentally invented a way to make corrals grow 25-40 times faster, making large scale reef restoration a possibility
XLwE TIL of Richard Jewell who became a national hero for saving hundreds of lives when he spotted a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, only to be wrongly accused of the crime 3 days later
KYO7B TIL that Richard Gere was banned from being an Oscar presenter in 1993 when denouncing the situation in Tibet when he was announcing the nominees. This led to him being banned from visiting China and most of the main Hollywood studios blackballed him, so he mostly acted in independent films