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TIL A French Man in 2004 Survived 34 Days Lost in a cave without access to food and almost no water.

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X0XpX TIL about Boontling, a hyper-localized jargon/lingo. Originating solely in the small Northern California community of Boonville during the 1890's, the argot (secret slang) has less than 100 speakers today.
E9Pp TIL ~51% of the restaurants Chef Ramsay has visited on ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ have closed since his intervention.
8ebVX TIL that the record for the shortest F1 career is just 2 metres of racing, achieved by German driver Ernst Loof, who only competed in the 1953 German Grand Prix
ADMRn TIL that 300 million years ago, trees didn't rot because the microbes to do so didn't exist yet.
W7oWX TIL Astronomers have observed sunspots, or starspots, on other stars. A study tracked 56 starspots from a sample of more than 5,000 Sun-like stars