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TIL that muscles, which we eat, start out as parasites

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m1nyO TIL that a girl won the Texas state track team championship by herself. In 2008 Bonnie Richardson scored so many points in individual events that no other school could catch up in team events, despite her being the only athlete from a high school of 59 students. In 2009 Richardson did it again!
VMGoG TIL the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic was piloted by... John Alcock and Arthur Brown in 1919. It would be 8 more years before Lindbergh did it, solo.
a84nN TIL Neapolitan ice cream's colors were originally green (pistachio), white (vanilla), and red/pink (cherry) to resemble the Italian flag.
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