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TIL Record for worst time in Olympic marathon event is 54 years 8 months 6 days 5 hours 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds, held by Shizo Kanakuri

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W7E9 TIL Ayn Rand was buried with a 6-foot tall floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign on her casket.
D1GKY TIL that wealthier urban and suburban neighborhoods are associated with larger and more fertile spiders due to the higher quality of food and green spaces.
d81O8 TIL During the filming of Spartacus, Kirk Douglas & Stanley Kubrick had such a bad relationship that they got therapy together.
8aErP TIL that in 1906 Eleanor Roosevelt bought a chicken-wire cage to hang out the window of her New York City townhouse for her first child, Anna, to nap in—a practice known as “airing” for city dwelling children
GAg6G TIL about Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) or Tooth-in-Eye Surgery. Pioneered in the 1960s, where surgeons would put a tooth in a blind person's eye and it can restore sight. It still happens to this day