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TIL that the first self help book was called Self-Help and was written by Dr. Samuel Smiles who coined the phrase "God helps those who help themselves."

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BgbLd TIL in 1983 Albert Rizzo set the WR for the longest time treading water at 108 hours. He performed the feat in the sea at Gżira in Malta, eating only liquid food. He extended his record to 132 hours in 1984 before the Guinness Book of Records stopped monitoring the record in 1986 due to its danger.
4XrkX TIL Alexander The Great Made his Troops Carry Licorice Root to help Quench Thirst
9wgRM TIL "artery" means "windpipe" as ancient anatomists found arteries empty in corpses and believed they carried vital spirits or air, with arterial bleeding explained by blood replacing escaping air from nearby vessels.
newVo TIL of Operation London Bridge, a detailed plan for what is to happen in the days after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The plan is updated several times yearly and was devised in the 1960s.
ep0XE TIL about the "Condor Cluster" that was unveiled in 2010 by the U.S. Air Force unveiled a supercomputer cobbled together with 1,760 PS3s that were to be used for radar enhancement, pattern recognition, satellite imagery processing, and artificial intelligence research.