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TIL in the men's outdoor pole vault, the top 8 all-time performances are all by Armand Duplantis, and the top 24 performances are shared by Duplantis and Sergey Bubka—seventeen of those by Duplantis and seven by Bubka.

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e0aek TIL of a tribe of nomadic divers that have evolved larger spleens allowing them to hold their breaths for up to 13 minutes and catch fish more than 200 feet underwater
b9E9 TIL at serial killer Carl Panzram’s execution, when asked if he had any last words, he said, “Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around!”
wL8b8 TIL there are some people who can't visualize things in their minds, so when asked to imagine something, they only see the blackness of their eyelids. These people, sufferers of "aphantasia", can't believe and/or understand the majority of us can, in fact, picture things vividly with our mind's eye.
GAJQQ TIL of Quintus Quincy Quigley, the founder of Paducah, Kentucky
ZD7a TIL John Rabe, a member of the Nazi Party, prevented the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians at the hands of the Japanese by setting up a refugee zone under the Nazi flag.