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TIL - Humans can outrun any animal on earth in a marathon.

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rNWjw TIL about the Paraguayan War in which 90% of males in the country died as well as over half the general population.
jbGa TIL that All six members of Monty Python expressed interest in playing Willy Wonka in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, but at the time they were deemed not big enough names for an international audience
nLkY TIL that Norway has something called ‘folkehøyskole’ aka 'people’s college’ where you pay $70,000 a year to live on the school’s property, go to classes of your choice of no academic value, have no exams and take trips to different locations through the year.It’s basically a year-long summercamp.
9YLX7 TIL about Frank "Sugarchile" Robinson, who taught himself to play piano at the age of two, played with Lionel Hampton when he was 5, was the first black entertainer at the White House Correspondents dinner when he was 8, recorded for Capitol Records (with two hits) from 9-12 then retired from music
Wkak8 TIL that the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) sect of Judaism and the Quaker sect of Christianity are both named after the exact same word (Isaiah 66:2): "Yet to such a one I look: To the poor and brokenhearted, who 'quakes' (חָרֵד in the original Hebrew, pronounced 'hared') before my word"