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TIL Walking was a competitive sport in the 19th century.

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x6Llg TIL Actor Kurt Russell first reported the famous Phoenix Lights UFO sighting, in which thousands of Phoenix residents all claim to have seen a UFO
dny9 TIL While playing Chess a female contestant can only open 2 buttons from the top on her shirt
R5K01 TIL about Roy Sullivan, a park ranger at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. He holds the record for being struck by lightning more times than any other human being. Between 1942 and 1977, he was struck by lightning seven times.
keXE TIL that the building of the Erie Canal is largely considered to be the deciding factor that made NYC the biggest city on the east coast, and not Philadelphia
1aD7 TIL Belgian King Leopold II killed around 10 million people in 40 years and most of the world doesn’t even know it happened.