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TIL that Mohamad Ahansal set the record for the fastest time to run the 250-kilometer (155-mile) Marathon des Sables in the Moroccan Sahara Desert by finishing at 16 hours, 22 minutes, 29 seconds back in 1998

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VPbQ TIL for several years, “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek’s “breakfast of champions” consisted of a Snickers and a Diet Pepsi. After his nutritionist reprimanded his routine, he switched his meals accordingly; he replaced them with Milky Way bars and Diet Cokes.
VM7gZ TIL A Marking Harness, a sponge of chalk or crayon worn on a Ram's chest, is used to tell which sheep a ram has mounted. (Some sheep end up looking polka dotted.)
e05K4 TIL The extreme effect of the solar eclipse eye “sunburn” is a condition called solar retinopathy, which is sun blindness caused by overstimulation of the retina. The retina has no pain receptors, so people who burn their retinas won’t feel it until their vision becomes defective several days later
Meo9A TIL Loraine Allison was the only child from first class to die on the Titanic. She had remained with her parents on the ship looking for her baby brother who had unknown to them already safely left in a lifeboat with his nanny.
8e8oX TIL that the first airline started in 1914, with scheduled service between Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida. The flight took 23 minutes at a cruising altitude of 5 feet.