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TIL That the domesticated hamsters we now call pets are all descended from one “Adam and Eve” like pair captured in Aleppo, Syria in 1930.
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TIL that the first ever Ironman Triathlon was won by US Navy Communications Specialist Gordon Haller. The runner-up John Dunbar, a US Navy Seal, was winning after the second transition but lost his lead when he ran out of water and his support crew started giving him beer instead.
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TIL that Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel prize winning philosopher, suffered a bad trip after using Mescaline, in which he thought he was menaced by sea creatures. For years following this, he consistently believed that he was being followed by lobsters.
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TIL there are ‘Sandy Hook Truthers’ that think the entire event never happened, and that all the people involved were actors
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TIL that in 2002 a retired Marine Corps General defeated an entire US Naval fleet in a simulated wargame by using old methods like motorcycles and light signals.