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TIL that Erranatti Mangamma became a mother of two twins at 73 years old and holds the record for having given birth at the highest age

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Y7xNr TIL that when baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash, his teammate Manny Sanguillen was the only one of his teammates who did not attend the memorial service as he chose to dive into the shark-infested crash site to try to help retrieve the body.
8G6K TIL that when faced with over 1,000 NVA troops, Roy P. Benavidez flew into a gunfight to save 12 Special Forces soldiers with only a knife. He was shot multiple times and believed dead, until he spit in the face of the medic trying to put him in a body bag.
rRe0o TIL The United States Department of Agriculture says the official definition of a sandwich is: “at least 35% cooked meat and no more than 50 percent bread”.
780xP TIL Mel Brooks wrote the lyrics to the Sherwood Forest Rap
N78RP TIL the oldest known "Yo Mama" joke was found on a 3500 y.o. broken tablet in Iraq. And is missing the punchline.