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TIL that whippets are the fastest accelerating land animal in the world.

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bpr9 TIL Brother Theodore was imprisioned in Dachau until he signed over his family’s fortune. He went to Switzerland but was kicked out for chess hustling. Einstein helped him escape to the US and he became a janitor in Stanford where he beat 30 professors simultaneously. Then he became an actor.
Zp1o TIL A British toddler was born with an extra strand of DNA
4X6BJ TIL Half a watermelon in Barrow, Alaska costs $36.96 in late 2017
GY10j TIL the Mayans revered bees so much that they had funerals for them.
Brb6K TIL that a man survived in a capsized boat at the bottom of the ocean for 60 hours in complete darkness.