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TIL sumo wrestler Emmanuel Yarbrough is the heaviest athlete in the world.

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6EPJm TIL: Bees don't buzz during an eclipse - Using tiny microphones suspended among flowers, researchers recorded the buzzing of bees during the 2017 North American eclipse. The bees were active and noisy right up to the last moments before totality. As totality hit, the bees all went silent in unison.
R1yw TIL the pokemon sableye is based upon the description of a Kentucky family’s alleged encounter extraterrestrials in 1955.
QwxL TIL that human fingers don’t contain muscles. The muscles that move them are in the palm and forearm
BkoK TIL that ravens can talk, mimic other sounds, and have surprisingly smooth voices.
8e8VV TIL On June 12, 1970,"Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis did something that, by all rights, should be completely impossible: He went and threw a no-hitter despite being high as a kite on lysergic acid diethylamide, otherwise known as acid."