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TIL In 2019, Roderick Sewell became the first-ever above-the-knee double-amputee to complete the grueling Ironman World Championship on prosthetic legs. The race included him completing a 112 mile bike ride he completed by pedaling a recumbent bike with his arms.

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mW4P TIL that while St Lawrence was being executed by being held to a red-hot gridiron he remarked “Turn me over, I’m done on this side” - He’s now the patron saint of Comedians.
awVr0 TIL Sloths can die of exhaustion when eating too much because they will use up all their energy digesting food in their stomach, before any of the food can provide them with more energy
1aYXV TIL in 1587, 115 men, women and children arrived at Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina. Their colony was to establish England's first foothold in the "New World." When their leader returned from a resupply mission, no one was to be found. All that was left was a token carved into a tree.
OGLXg Today I learned that in 1962 a man bought a deserted island in the Seychelles and planted 16000 trees, reintroduced 120 giant turtles and hundreds of birds turning the island into a protected national park
pkaN TIL Adolf Hitler’s mother, Klara Hitler, died from breast cancer in 1909. In 1940 Adolf showed gratitude to their family doctor Eduard Bloch (who was Jewish) for treating his mother by allowing him to emigrate with his wife to the United States from Austria.