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TIL There are a group of Native Americans in Mexico who run 200 miles in one session and hunt by running their prey to death.

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kOab1 TIL about the Rhinoceros Party of Canada who, if elected, promised to "Promote higher education by building taller schools", "Repeal the law of gravity", and "Take Canada off the gold standard, opting instead to use a snow standard to boost the economy".
PY7EE TIL arXiv is pronounced "archive", not "ark sieve", because the X represents the Greek letter chi
XEYn8 TIL Astronaut Chris Hadfield’s wife kept hanging up on his phone calls from the ISS thinking he was a telemarketer. The 3 second delay made her think no one was on the other side of the line when she’d answer. NASA then gave her the ISS’s phone number so her phone read “SPACE” each time he called.
5YBRR TIL that the infamous RMS Titanic had a near-identical sister ship called Olympic, nicknamed "Old Reliable", that was re-commissioned in WWI as a troop transport ship and was notable for having carried over 200,000 troops during the war and sinking a German u-boat by ramming into it head-on
L0o9 TIL Hal, Reese and Dewey all appeared in more episodes of ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ than Malcolm did.