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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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kOxNd TIL On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs shot her three children and drove them at 5-7 mph to the hospital. Her 7 yr old daughter was already dead, her other 2 children were in critical condition. She'd also shot herself in the forearm. She claimed she'd been carjacked. She was sentenced to life plus 50 yrs
KaWE TIL that in some countries, it’s not illegal to escape prison providing no other laws are broken, as it’s human nature to want to escape.
4XR6b TIL that in Django Unchained, Leonardo DiCaprio felt uncomfortable saying the 'N' word repeatedly, so Samuel L. Jackson pulled him aside and said, "Hey motherfucker, this is another Tuesday for us. Let's go!"
GAAlg TIL about the Lady Juliana (1777 ship), a ship chartered to transport a load of all-female prisoners to Australia, which quickly developed a reputation as a floating brothel: "when we were fairly out to sea, every man on board took a wife from among the convicts, they nothing loath."
Y7XEd TIL that the Polish opera "Halka" was staged in Cazale, Haiti, to highlight the village's connection with Poland: Many of its inhabitants are descendents of the Polish legionnaires sent by Napoleon to put down the Haitian Revolution.