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TIL that actor Brian Blessed has climbed Everest 3 times, is the oldest man to trek to the North Pole on foot and undertook an expedition to the deep jungles of Venezuela

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lEVB TIL that lone star tick bites can cause you to develop an allergy to mammalian meats.
e0QQ5 TIL that a Venice-like city in present-day Micronesia was built in the 8th or 9th century and abandoned by the 17th century.
6wNm TIL Muhammad Ali Traveled to Iraq in 1990 & Rescued 15 united states citizens taken hostage by Saddam Hussein.
a8LZb TIL that the human-dog relationship goes back many thousands of years. A skeleton of a dog, buried 14,000 years ago, was found next to that of two people. The dog skeleton shows that it survived a serious infection as a puppy. Had humans not frequently fed and cleaned the dog, it would have died.
LQQOv TIL about floating gears which is a method commonly used (although not strictly) by truckers to shift gears without the use of the clutch. The aim is to match engine speed with gear speed and then they should effortlessly mesh together with only 2 fingers.