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TIL Usain Bolt ate 100 Chicken McNuggets a day for 10 days before the Beijing Olympics and eventually winning 3 gold medals.

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b94k7 TIL pirates wore an eye patche so when they went below deck they could switch the patch to the other eye to see in the dark right away without waiting for their eyes to adjust.
ADE6d TIL There was a military variant of the VW Beetle called the "Kübelwagen". Despite only being two wheel drive, it outperformed nearly every other vehicle during testing. Due to its flat belly, it would propel itself like a sled if the wheels sank into snow, mud, or sand.
D10PJ TIL that Robert Liston amputated a patient's leg so fast that he cut off his assistant's fingers and slashed through a spectator's coat. His patient and assistant died due to infection, and the spectator died due to shock, making this medical operation the only known one with a 300% mortality rate.
N7avQ TIL NASA gave away hundreds of trees that have been to the moon. They never kept track of who they gave them to. Now they are trying to find them. One was at the White House.
XbVr TIL that actress Hedy Lamarr was the first to simulate an orgasm in a non-porno flick & also invented spread spectrum technology, the backbone for fax, wi-fi and cellular networks