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TIL A dog named Cactus ran an ultramarathon in the Sahara Desert just for fun, beating the majority of human runners.

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D1mWP TIL that people dont eat turkey eggs simply because they are less economical to raise than chickens.
VBRX8 TIL: The first black applicant to the then all white University of Mississippi was committed to an insane asylum for being crazy enough to apply (1958, Clennen King).
Eg6lp TIL human chimerism is a rare occurrence in which a person has 2 sets of DNA. The rarest kind is caused by fraternal twins that fuse together when they are only a clump of cells in size.
oBOB8 TIL about Bart King, one of the greatest cricketers of all time was an American; The Times (UK) even ran an obituary when he died!
8a9kG TIL in 1994, Hulk Hogan's agent left a voicemail saying, "I’ve got a grill and I’ve got a blender, which one do you want to pick?" Hogan couldn't answer the phone because he was picking up his kids up from school so his agent offered the grill endorsement to another client, George Foreman.