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TIL that the current unofficial record for the “Cannonball Run” (a illegal race from New York, New York to Los Angeles, California) is set at 31 hours and 4 minutes.

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bZ4Q TIL there is still a woman alive who lost her fiance in World War I. Grace Jones, the last living Briton born before 1900, says she never married after the death of her young fiance Albert Rees in the war as she never found anyone as nice as him
p8bvG TIL In 1969 the US held a televised draft lottery for the Vietnam War, in which blue capsules were pulled from a container at random containing birthdates that would determine who the first round of eligible men to go off to war would be
4kBNJ TIL-That the California Grizzly Bear on the state Flag is Extinct.
GAZE5 TIL the song "Hello! Ma Baby", popularized in Merrie Melodies cartoons and Spaceballs, dates to 1899 and was written about a girlfriend the singer has met only through the telephone.
rNJD0 TIL it takes more than 60 days to climb mount everest.