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TIL that Will Dean, founder of the Tough Mudder, created the race after his wetsuit zipper got stuck during a triathlon & racers around him weren’t willing to sacrifice the time it would have cost to stop and help. He wanted something where teamwork & accomplishment were more important than winning.

m118Y TIL only 10% of plastic is actually recycled
4kB8b TIL Jimmy Kimmel Live! Has not recorded live since 2004 because censors were unable to properly bleep a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane
EypX TIL a drug was developed in the 1970s that increases long term memory as much as 152%
XEQaR TIL that Minnie Mouse's full name is actually Minerva
GANJ5 TIL Lord Byron's character Don Juan is properly pronounced "don jew-one"