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TIL Detroit has put in the most bids to host the olympics without ever hosting them

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oB7aL TIL that there are still street merchants in Baltimore, called arabbers, who carry on a 150 year old tradition by travelling around selling fruits and vegetables from a horse drawn cart.
NWKe TIL In 2005 Benedict Cumberbatch was abducted and held at gunpoint by armed men in South Africa. After being let go he was eventually rescued by a stranger. He commented: “It taught me that you come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life less ordinary.”
Q89e TIL that Grizzly bears have a bite-force of over 8,000,000 pascals, which is enough to crush a bowling ball.
XEWQX TIL the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body is the Stapedius muscle, which is about one millimeter (0.04 inch) in length. Its purpose is, amazingly enough, to "stabilize the smallest bone in the body, the stapes or strirrup bone of the middle ear."
e5ob TIL André the Giant was once in a Montreal bar when four drunken men started to taunt him. André finally got fed up and chased the four men out into the parking lot. When the four men got into their car, André simply grabbed the car, turned it over onto its roof with the four men inside, and left.