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TIL about walking adventurer Karl Bushby, currently attempting to be the first person to completely walk an unbroken path around the world since 1998

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yQr1M TIL Tickets for the Muhammad Ali & Joe Frazier fight in 1971 were so hard to get that the only way Frank Sinatra could get in was to ring up the editor of Life Magazine and ask for a press pass as a photographer. His photo of the fight ended up on the front cover of the magazine.
OOV6 TIL Rolls Royce offers a course called “White Glove Experience” to teach chauffeur’s how to, among other things, minimize fingerprints on door handles and brake the car without kickback.
4XWZ6 TIL: That you can train honeybees to detect explosives
YpJBW TIL Dartmouth (and a few other schools) makes all its students pass a swim test before the graduate, so that they won’t drown and waste their education.
WgV9 TIL there is a snake in Africa whose venom causes your blood to not only stop clotting but to come running out of every hole on your body. Its called the boomslang snake.