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TIL Reggie Strickland holds the record for the most losses as a Professional Boxer with 276

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w80E TIL a woman survived a fall of 14,500 feet when main chute didn’t open only to land in a FIRE ANT MOUND. Was bitten over 200 times and broke most of the bones on her right side.
j6d4n TIL of the remote cliffside village of Atulie'er, where—as recently as 2016—kids as young as 6 would spend 90 minutes each way climbing unstable vine ladders 800m to and from the bottom of the mountain to get to school.
JAY1 TIL The biggest medieval codex ever discovered is a collection of manuscripts commonly referred to as the Devil’s Bible; the ‘Codex Gigas’ weighs about 165lbs (roughly 75kg) and is said to be a product of a desperate monk’s deal with Lucifer himself.
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ayA9 TIL that German citizens, born before January 1st 1928, need a visa to visit Israel, which will be issued for free if one was not a Nazi party member or involved in crimes committed during that time