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TIL Ricardo Abad Martínez holds the world record for most consecutive marathons run on consecutive days with 607. He also ran all of these marathons even though he still worked his factory job 8 hours a day.

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8aEM4 TIL that in 2010, a group of Weight Watchers members gathered to see how much weight they had lost, only for the floor to collapse under their combined weight.
yWEa TIL in 1945 a farmer chopped off a chicken’s head, missed the jugular vein, a clot formed and some of the brain stem survived, providing basic homeostasis functions. Mike the headless chicken toured in sideshows for 18 months and earned the farmer $4,500/ month at the peak of his popularity
N7ZA8 TIL Louis III of France, who became king of West Francia aged 15, died at 18 years old when jumped on a horse, rode through a low door and hit his head on the lintel, fracturing his skull.
5Y0B9 TIL Carleton Gajdusek, who first described the prion disease kuru, had the rare distinction of being a Nobel prizewinner and a convicted child molester. As a medical researcher he studied kuru, an incurable disease that affects the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea, and published 150 papers
ANkMn TIL that in 2005 Paul Janssen the developer of fentanyl was voted the second greatest Belgian of all time. (Father Damien the leper priest was first)