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TIL Many people killed in crowd disasters die standing up

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aw8VJ TIL The Rarámuri people of northwestern Mexico are the world's finest endurance runners. Distances up to 435 miles (700km) without rest are on record, and running 200 miles (320km) or more is commonplace. They do this in rough mountainous terrain in sandals or completely barefoot.
EBaw TIL Netflix was forced to add subtitles to all their releases after the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) filed suit against them, citing their lack of closed captioning for streaming video as a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act .
K9lG TIL a giant bronze statue of RoboCop is to be erected in Detroit this year thanks to a Kickstarter.
grKML TIL green beans Aid digestion Help control hunger & Promote better bone health
W7g09 TIL only about 200 people had summited Mount Everest by 1987, whereas by 2013 it had been summited 6,871 times by 4,042 different people.