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TIL that in 2009 OkCupid statistics showed that women rate 80% of men “below average”

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W7X1d TIL The first US cross country road trip was by Jacob Murdock in 1908 it took 32 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes.
0dpEy TIL about Ken Warby, the fastest man on water. He set the speed record in his homemade, wood boat in 1978 at 317.6mph (551.1 km/h), a record that still stands today.
VB0v4 TIL there is a tiny strip of land within Yellowstone Park called the “Zone of Death”. A constitutional quirk would allow a murder or other crime to take place, but not have enough resident to form a jury. Theoretically allowing a “get away with murder free zone”.
9Y6pX TIL Pope Francis issued a papal decree stating that all dogs go to heaven, settling a debate within the Catholic Church dating back to the 18th century.
lokK5 TIL that there is an extremely rare neurological disorder known as "Foreign Accent Syndrome"; persons of any culture, with no prior history of living in a foreign country or speaking its language, can start speaking with a perfect version of its accent, typically after a traumatic brain incident.