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TIL of Dean Karnazes; Ultra-Marathon runner who ran 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005

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XEdKX TIL that researchers have found a meteorite that is older then earth in Algeria; and is our only evidence of a protoplanet that existed before earth
XjnP TIL the first time the word “astronaut” was used to refer to a human traveling in space was in Neil R. Jones’s short story “The Death’s Head Meteor,” in 1930
QJO9M TIL that an absolute legend of a bureaucrat (René Camille) saved countless lives under Nazi occupied France. He consistently sabotaged tabulating machines that IBM were happily supplying to the Nazis to round up 'undesirables' and deliberately staged huge bureaucratic cock-ups. He died in Dachau.
LkbPZ TIL that one Golden poison frog contains enough toxin to kill 10 to 20 people. It can be found in the Pacific coast region of Colombia in South America and is a social animal—living in groups of up to six frogs.
loY85 TIL of quipos - the Andean writing system which didn't use ink and paper/tablets/skins. Information was encoded in an intricate system of strings of colored yarn tied in a variety of knots. This system survived until just after the Conquistadors.