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TIL the average soccer player runs about 7 miles in a match

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kORkm TIL a significant portion of the computer science community once believed Douglas Engelbart was "a crackpot." But, then, on 12/9/1968, he demonstrated to critics and world most all the fundamental elements of modern computing. When finished, they described him as "dealing lightning with both hands."
JpwV TIL that the chef’s hat (or toque) has 100 folds in it to represent the number of different ways the chef can cook an egg
4XbWJ TIL about Thimmamma Marrimanu the tree with the greatest perimeter length in the world.A distance of 846 m is required to walk around the perimeter of its canopy.
4XeK6 TIL During the 1960 campaign, Kennedy learned that a group of Kenyan students who had won scholarships to study at American universities didn't have enough funds to come. When Eisenhower refused to intervene, JFK arranged to have the Kennedy family foundation underwrite their travel
LjAp TIL that it’s possible for well-educated intellectually active individuals to have Alzheimer’s and not show any of the symptoms of cognitive decline, even when the desease was progressed much and their brain is riddled with plaques and tangles. However, they still die of it.