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TIL about the Barkley Marathon - a 55 mile race that retraces the path of escaped prisoner Jame Earl Ray (killed MLK). It has been run annually for over 30 years but only 15 entrants have ever finished.

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b9WJa TIL of Precordial catch syndrome, a condition where you get random harmless stabbing pains in the chest
epAJb TIL about Gen'yōsha (Black Ocean Society), a secret Japanese society active in the Empire of Japan founded by many ex-samurai to fight the newly formed Meiji government.
4XVJo TIL that the reason soccer lost popularity in America was primarily due to the Great Depression which caused many clubs to default and the shutdown of the American Soccer League
VyKm TIL a 1970s high school art project ceramic jug, found in a barn covered with chicken poop, was mistakenly identified as 19th century work and priced at $50,000 on Antiques Road Show.
l7NYV TIL of the Boynton Bicycle Railroad. It was a monorail with two vertically aligned rails(one wooden), double decker passenger cars, propelled by steam engines that ran for two years in the 1890s in Brooklyn, New York.