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EkpP TIL: 1968, Olympic long jumper Bob Beamon’s first attempt exceed the limit of the official measuring equipment. It took over 15 minutes before a distance was posted, and only then did he realize he had broken the world record by nearly 2 feet (0.6m).
aQGb TIL Selling oregano as marijuana can get someone into as much trouble as selling marijuana
R57g7 TIL about The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds of the Law - an Austro-Hungarian satire party whose platform included mandatory alcoholism and reintroducing the Inquisition
m1XLo TIL of the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, which was awarded 1989-2010 in the honor of the Libyan dictator
BgBkb TIL the "Perhapsatron" was an early Fusion Power device developed in Los Alamos that no one was sure would work, hence calling it "perhaps-a-tron"