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TIL the Chicago Sun-Times bought and and ran a bar to show and uncover corruption.

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p8ODp TIL that Wilford Brimley isn't just a spokesman for diabetes. He is also a respected actor whose career spans for than half a century.
Dbgv TIL that a boy in France was actually raised by wolves in the late 1700s and was not discovered and brought back to society until he was 12, where he continuously tried to escape back into the wild.
oBQVE TIL the world record for “Simon” was broken last year and currently stands at 84 sequences.
L1jr TIL after Rasputin was murdered, a group of people dug up his remains & burned them. As the body was being burned, Rasputin appeared to sit up in the flames, terrifying onlookers. This effect can be attributed to the heat, which caused his tendons to shrink, forcing the body to bend at the waist.
rRNBo New research shows that world-class sprinters don’t use their legs to just bounce off the ground as most other runners do, they deliver a forceful punch to ground.