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TIL that bones can bleed and bruise just like skin; I banged my toe against a brick wall and did some deep research after.

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m1lbp TIL in 1988 a tradie named Gordon O'Connor alongside his camel, Carla, defeated dysentery, kidney failure, the Australian outback and the SAS to win the world's longest animal endurance race
m14ky TIL that there is an island off the coast of Long Island, New York that has been been privately owned by the same family for 400 years
Kmw TIL There is a insect called the tree lobster that almost went extinct due to rats from a shipwreck on the on the island where they lived
oBoaY TIL A father taught his young children algebra and calculus. Jenny, 5, worked the formula for converting Celsius temperature to Fahrenheit. Kevin, 8, was given some integral calculus problems
XAOR TIL an inmate confronted Al Capone to get back when he cut in the line, Al asked him if he knows who he is and while holding scissors to Capone’s neck he replied: “Yeah, I know who you are, greaseball. And if you don’t get back to the end of that fucking line, I’m gonna know who you were.”