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TIL a rugby player ran a 90km marathon in his rugby boots and later organized a Test match in a WWII POW camp

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DRDP TIL that CGI rendering software, used to model gravitational lensing around black holes and wormholes, in the film ‘Interstellar’ was so accurate it’s creation produced three scientific papers and are likely the best visualizations of said effects ever created.
wnO6 TIL A 16-year-old Xhosa girl had a vision that to defeat the British soldiers the tribe should kill all the cattle and destroy the crops. Tens of thousands died in the resulting famine
DQL7e TIL electric cars existed before gasoline cars, with early electric vehicles on the road decades before the first internal combustion-powered cars were even invented.
E184w TIL that unlike in North America, eggs are not washed in the UK because the process removes a protective membrane that makes them require refrigeration.
wLbnW TIL that the Amboseli National Park in Kenya is experiencing an Elephant baby boom