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TiL The discus throw is the only track and field event where a women has a higher record then a man.

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QlVM TIL: John Cleese’s father’s surname was Cheese. Cleese grew up 10 miles from Cheddar and his best friend at school was called Barney Butter.
Qnoa TIL In China, women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and beyond are called “Sheng nu” which means “leftover women.”
NwYN TIL that the world’s largest cocaine producer is Peru. It has dethroned Colombia.
eoAD TIL: Hibernating bears don’t eat or drink, and thus don’t poop or pee, but they develop a fecal plug in their intestines that can grow to 7 to 15 inches long and 1 to 2.5 inches in diameter. They defecate when they emerge from hibernation. “Fecal plugs have a light odor that is not unpleasant.”
k081 TIL That on this day in 1963 the US Military created an artificial ring around the earth, similar to that of the planet Saturn. The ring was made of copper needles and was used for worldwide communications in the case that the Soviets disabled all other methods of communication.