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TIL the world record for the longest marathon theatre performance by an individual is 110 hours 46 minutes & was achieved by Adrian Hilton when he recited the complete works of William Shakespeare at a Shakespeare Festival in London in 1987.

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a8LjA TIL that the Canadian city of Lloydminster is a shared city on the border between two provinces, having a single local government despite residents paying taxes to different provincial governments
5VKkD TIL that tetanus is the only vaccine-preventable disease that is caused by an infection but is not contagious.
5wkp TIL that water in Lake Erie replaces itself in 2.6 years while the water in Lake Superior takes 191 years to do the same.
m11KE TIL Peter Cooper, the man who created the first American steam-powered locomotive, the Tom Thumb, later invented and patented a powdered gelatin process, which later became known as Jell-O.
D1Zkv TIL Stan Lee created The X-men as 'mutants' because he didn't want to explain how they got their powers. They were BORN with their powers.