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TIL Tamara Torlakson pooped her pants while running a marathon and still set her personal best.

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yQjQ8 TIL Vikings honored their high ranking women warriors with the same ceremony and respect awarded to all successful professional warriors.
LkPWr TIL: To pep up the look of a bland 70s Chicago office building, a design firm in 2013 added a 400-foot-tall map of the city. The modernistic 35-storey map is all gray and black except for the representation of the host building (300 S Wacker Drive) --which is shown in red and lights up at night.
MelrB TIL: The Hawaiian State Bird, the Nene, is descended from the Canadian Goose, who got lost while migrating between Canada and Mexico and just decided to stay in Hawaii half a million years ago.
wxMo TIL that in 2013, a researcher at UW managed the first human to human brain interface through the Internet by wearing a cap and playing a video game. When he wanted to shoot a missile, he thought “fire” and another researcher across campus’s finger moved involuntarily and pressed the fire button.
jNOvn TIL Jeff Bezos paid more than $16,000 in parking tickets while renovating his DC mansion