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TIL Napoleon’s Penis was once sold for $3000 and could be worth about $100k today.

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L4Ym TIL a 13-year-old Canadian girl once ran the fastest marathon by a female, knocking more than four minutes off the previous world record. While running she was beaming and saying, “gee, this is great!“ Two minutes after the race, a doctor declared that her heart rate had already returned to normal.
pYeoG TIL cilantro seeds are coriander, coriander leaves and stems are cilantro, cilantro means coriander in Spanish.
8akLa TIL of The Existence of the “27 Club”, The cultural phenomenon when a popular musical artist, actor or athlete dies at the age of 27.
LRLv TIL that the word “boycott” comes from 1880, when the Irish Land League refused to do business with a rent collector named Charles Boycott.
nw4W TIL that, after his disabled owner was struck by a car, ‘Endal’ the service dog pulled his unconscious owner into the recovery position, retrieved his mobile phone from beneath the car, fetched a blanket and covered him, and then ran to a nearby hotel to obtain help