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TIL Unlike most mammals, the bowhead whale can live well past the age of 200.

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VBNlm TIL In 2005 a man named Dean Karnazes ran 350 miles with zero sleep. He ran for 80 hours and 44 minutes straight.
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kOG7e TIL Charles King, Former Liberian President, holds the Guinness World record for most frauded election in history, having won the 1927 election with 234 000 votes in a country with 15 000 registered votes.
LyVV TIL Smoking while driving is banned in North Korea on the grounds that a smoking driver cannot smell a problem with the car.
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