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TIL That there are 2 chemically different kind of tears

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GAe1J TIL during 1904 Olympics men's marathon winner was disqualified as he rode in a car for part of the race. The actual winner was near collapse and hallucinating, an effect of being fed brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers. The fourth-place finisher took a nap after eating spoiled apples.
JYDdv TIL about The Poseidon, or Status-6 Multipurpose System, which is a Russian nuclear-powered underwater drone capable of creating half-kilometer tall tsunamis with a 200 megaton nuclear blast. The Russian Navy has already ordered the construction of 30 such devices.
LDOv TIL Ikea uses 1% of the Earth’s wood supply.
Emox TIL the modern polo shirt was designed so the collar would intentionally be popped, preventing the sun from burning tennis players’ necks.
X0r7P TIL that 3 academics used writings from Mein Kampf (with wording changed) to write 20 papers, which promoted feminist ideologies to show biases in ideology based subjects. 7 of the papers got published by top journals.