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TIL One of the best ultra runners in the world gained her ability after a seizure, warping her sense of time. She has no ability to gauge the amount of time she has left to run.

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awNA0 TIL: starter dough or "mother dough" is a real thing.
9YMQ TIL, Lang Hancock (Gina Rinehart’s father) suggested forcing aboriginals - to collect their welfare cheques from a central location: “And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future.”
0wExv TIL Parisians used to "hang out" in the morgue situated near the Notre Dame de Paris. The macabre attraction used to lure as many as 40.000 visitors per day. There were even street vendors catering to the crowds waiting outside to take a peek at the corpses.
v8Kr TIL some Ultramarathon Runners Remove their Toenails Permanently
xVWag TIL Guy's Grocery Games is shot in a made for TV grocery story with 10 aisles stocked with 20,000 items including fresh meats, seafoods, produce and baked good which are donated to local food banks each week, nearly 30k lb per season.