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TIL that Dean Karnazes ran for 350 miles nonstop, over three sleepless nights … just because he felt like trying to.

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b6Ova TIL that William and Ellen Craft, two people enslaved in the American South, fled to the North in the 1840s, with Ellen (who was more light-skinned than William) posing as William's male master. They escaped to the U.K., where they raised five children, and eventually moved back to the U.S. in 1868.
OGDM1 TIL Hugh Jackman took a pay cut to ensure "Logan" would be rated R. Since 'R-rated' films typically limit the overall audience that can attend, Jackman's reduced salary brought the budget down to an acceptable place to warrant an R rating.
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klYB TIL before starting Wendy’s, Dave Thomas worked under Colonel Sanders at KFC and even invented their widely used KFC chicken bucket
yQZ7V TIL a scientist stationed in Antarctica managed to score a match through Tinder with a woman camping 45 minutes away.