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TIL in 1979 researcher John Merritt placed a photographic memory test in publications across the US. He estimated that roughly 1 million people took the test & of that number, 30 wrote in with the correct answer. However, when he visited 15 of them in their homes, not one could duplicate the feat.

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Br89k TIL British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes was the first man to walk across the entire continent of Antarctica, unsupported. He was also considered to play James Bond.
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