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TIL that Abebe Bikila won the 1960 Olympic marathon barefoot after he couldn’t find comfortable shoes, setting a world record and taking home the gold.

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5DPR TIL that in 1968 Charles Schulz resisted adding a black character to Peanuts because he thought it would be seen as condescending. After adding Franklin, his syndicate tried to force Schulz to remove him. He said, “Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?”
aO5J TIL KitKats are considered to be good luck in Japan because the Japanese reading of “KitKat”, “kitto katto”, sounds similar to “kitto katsu”, a phrase which translates to “surely win”
DQO0D TIL I learned a man named Joel Burger married a woman named Ashley King in 2015.Burger King paid for their wedding.
NXxD1 TIL that menstruation is actually very rare in mammals. Other than humans, only 9 primate species, 4 bat species, the elephant shrew, and one species of mouse menstruate. All other female mammals reabsorb their uterine lining, rather than shed it
xVyo0 TIL Scallops have anywhere from 50-200 eyes.