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TIL Dynamite is pretty much just tiny algae fossils soaked in nitroglycerin

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mN5O TIL that if humans were capable of hearing frequencies lower than 20 Hz, we would hear our muscles moving.
9gY7 TIL there is a Native American tribe in Mexico that are known to be able to run up to 430 miles without stopping.
OGJya TIL when HOF Baseball player Don Drysdale passed away by heart attack in his hotel room, amongst his belongings was a cassette tape recording of RFK's final speech that Don carried everywhere he went. In that speech RFK acknowledged Don's 6th straight shut out game that he pitched that same evening.
Dmbe TIL a 12 year old girl was handcuffed, booked, and fingerprinted for eating french fries in a subway
gebD TIL Warren Buffett met his mistress Astrid Menks, while she was a waitress at a nightclub his wife was a singer at. The women ‘shared’ Buffett from the 1970’s until his wife died in 2004. The three would send out Christmas cards signed “Warren, Susie and Astrid.” In 2006 Buffett married his mistress