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TIL that the Eastern US can be circumnavigated by boat

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X0rPR TIL that boxer Lennox Lewis was behind on points to opponent Vitali Klitschko’s, until landing a punch that forced the fight to end on injury (despite Vitali wanting to continue). Lewis the winner, would then retire from boxing, whilst Vitali continually demanded a rematch over the years.
GA5Y7 TIL about Hans Spemann, a German embryologist who won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Medicine after he put his name on his student Hilde Mangold's dissertation. She discovered embryonic induction, one of the first steps toward cloning, but died in 1924.
QBwk TIL King Harald of Norway vowed to remain unmarried for life unless he could marry his true love, the daughter of a cloth merchant. She became the Queen of Norway.
9wW5Q TIL manufacturers do not recommend cooking salmon in the dishwasher. An LG spokesperson stated there is a question of whether certain foods (like fish and eggs) will be heated well enough in it to kill pathogens like Salmonella and that the water temperature will not be as consistent as a stove.
rNJO0 TIL BC Place Stadium's original inflated white dome was the world's largest air-supported roof when it was built in 1983. The flexible tarp roof was ripped up in 2007 by snow and wind