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TIL Actress Alicia Witt's mother held the Guinness World Record for the longest hair from 1989 to 1996

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yVvDw TIL About Oksana Chusovitina, an Uzbekistani artistic gymnast who already competed in eight Olympic Games and has plans to compete in ninths.
LQkrP TIL - In 1956, the Marine Corps' AD-4B (A-1) Skyraider had a "relief tube" for pilots to urinate, but no provision for #2. An aviator on a 4 hour flight needed to take off his helmet, and poop into it.
VMey0 TIL that humans have a 95% probability of going extinct (in 7,800,000 years) according to J. Richard Gott's evolutionary formulation
oBVkE TIL that most aerosol cans have a little dot painted on the rim that, when aligned with the nozzle, help you get every last drop of the product out before you run out of propellant. There’s a curved straw inside that runs down the edge of the can and that dot lines up with the bottom of that straw.
N7d0J TIL that the physician who tended to President Garfield after he was shot was Doctor Willard Bliss. His first name was Doctor.