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TIL that Gregg Ernst backlifted 2422 kg (approximately 5,340 lbs.) of two cars on a platform to set the world record for live weight backlifting in July 1993. This record still stands today

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pNwb TIL Christopher Lee enlisted in the Royal Air Force during World War II, is a classically trained singer, and is currently still acting at age 92.
ADenl TIL of the Saint Gallen Group, a group of liberal-minded bishops and cardinals that held yearly secret meetings from 1996 to 2004 to discuss church policy, and were rumored to try to block Benedict XVI from being elected as pope.
nWk5G TIL Indian Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian, first Non-European to receive the Nobel prize in Literature (1913), was the only person to write national anthems of two countries- India & Bangladesh. Even Sri Lanka's national anthem was inspired by his work.
QNkoa TIL: Males have different personalities types.
awmRZ TIL that in the amazing world of gumball, the voice actor who plays Gumball's Mom, Nicole, also voices his girlfriend, penny, and also DARWIN'S girlfriend, Carrie.