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TIL that Saint Anthony Falls in downtown Minneapolis is the only natural major waterfall on the Mississippi River.

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BgMwy TIL: In golf, if your ball lands near an animal with large teeth or venomous fangs, you're allowed to claim "free relief" and drop a new ball within one club's length of where the original ball landed.
gMNv8 TIL: There is a psychological state called “helper’s high” whereby giving produces endorphins in the brain that provide a mild version of a morphine high. Research has shown that helping others lights up the same part of the brain as receiving rewards or experiencing pleasure.
NX6Wb TIL about the Barkley Marathon. It's a 100 mile long ultra marathon through the state of Tennessee with a 60h time limit. You can only apply by sending an essay on why you deserve to take part in it in addition with a 1.60$ entrance fee.
eBX6 TIL that Ernest Hemingway survived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, a fractured skull, and more.
LkX8m TIL that in 2003 Serbian wedding guests accidentally shot down a small plane with celebratory gunfires