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

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E175p TIL of couple Vladimir & Lidiya Guryev of Montclair New Jersey. They are Russian spies in pretense of being locals in the name of Richard & Cynthia Murphy. They arrived in US in mid 1990s and arrested by FBI in 2010.
BgZaW TIL 21% of US adults are illiterate, and 54% have a literacy below sixth-grade level.
XE16P TIL that the word "mortgage" literally means "death-pledge" in French
e0656 TIL In 1968 Japan a fake motorbike cop stopped a car carrying 300m Yen in cash (26m USD), told the driver to run because the car was rigged to blow and then simply drove the car away. The culprit and the cash have never been found
0dpQj TIL there is a monastery in Florida constructed from remaining blocks from a dismantled monastery that was built in Spain in 1133 AD.