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TIL Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt ate 100 McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets every day for 10 days during the 2008 Beijing Olympics

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jNJav TIL that, between 1907 and 1922, American-born women who married non-citizens automatically lost American citizenship. In 1917, hundreds of American women who had married German men were forced to register with the government as 'enemy aliens'.
R5Va6 TIL That prior to 9/11 knives up to 4 inches long were allowed in aircraft cabins
NaMQ TIL In 1944, at Auschwitz, 5 men managed to smuggle in a camera and take 4 photographs of the atrocities occurring. They are the only known photographs of Auschwitz.
VMomp TIL that if there are 23 people in a room, there’s a 50% chance that 2 of them share a birthday. If there are 70 people in a room, there’s a 99.9% chance that 2 if them share a birthday. This is called the Birthday Problem or Birthday Paradox
e0LZE TIL that Emily Edith Smith believed she encountered Jack the Ripper in November 1892 (four years after his final victim). The girl was attacked by a strange man with a knife in Whitechapel. Smith kicked him in the groin and fled, and his description fit the Ripper's profile, but the trail went cold.