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TIL A coconut can be considered as a fruit, nut, and seed or simply "dried drupe"

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N69N TIL a French man named Benoît Lecomte once swam 3,716 miles across the entire Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts to France; the feat took him a total of 73 days, 5 of which included him being followed by a great white shark
8abP4 TIL middle-aged marathon runners are faster than twentysomethings. It's not clear why this is, although the older runners do train slightly more.
NXPAN TIL that Japanese Sumo wrestlers life expectancy is between 60-65 years old or about 20 years less than the typical Japanese male.
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ADWVn TIL during his time as a POW, Alexis Casdagli made numerous cross-stitches. One of them was so good that the Germans displayed them in his POW camp for everyone to see, unaware of a secret message stitched into his handiwork. The message, in Morse code, reads "God save the King" and "Fuck Hitler"