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TIL A 2009 study found that the risk of sudden death during a marathon is 0.8 per 100,000 people, and that triathlons have a significantly higher risk of sudden death at 1.5 in 100,000.

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QNWBp TIL in 1957, dentist Charles Kremer in New York voiced his suspicion that a high-ranking church official, Archbishop Valerian Trifa, was actually the Nazi war criminal Viorel Trifa. 20 years later, investigators found Trifa's fingerprint on a postcard to Heinrich Himmler in a German archive.
vPj6B TIL about Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague, who began as an urban legend during the Nazi occupation of the Czech capital city and later became a pop-culture antifascist superhero.
ZXwG TIL That the IB, which places strict punishments for plagiarism, just copied their marking guides from Wikipedia
wbpY TIL that Aztecs raised Chihuahuas in order to eat them
o5o7 TIL in France the law on unused food was canceled. It is only a voluntary agreement between supermarkets and the government with no penalties in cases of non-compliance.