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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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8e7gX TIL that in Boggle, the only two Fs and the only K are on the same cube, making it impossible to spell any word containing both F and K. Combining B and J is impossible for the same reason.

vJbj TIL that in 1884, mine workers on strike pushed burning carts into the mines in New Straitsville, OH and started a 132 year underground fire that burns to this day. Massive amounts of coal were burned and residents of the area had reportedly used hot water from nearby wells to make instant coffee.

yVP8V TIL that "Hydrophobia" is often mistaken with "Aquaphobia" and that true Hydrophobia is a symptom of a human rabies infection.

lom9A TIL Link Wray’s “Rumble” is the only instrumental to be banned from American radio

EgW17 TIL Alexander the Great had a Hindu Guru who accompanied his army on their return to Persia. After he died via self immolation the army held a drinking contest in his honor, resulting in 42 people dying from alcohol poisoning, including the winner, who drank 13 litres of unmixed wine