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TIL male marathoners are 3x more likely than women to start a race at a pace they can’t sustain for 26 miles

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Rka6 TIL that there is an Outer Space Treaty which states that no one on Earth can own any celestial body, including the Moon, because it is deemed as a “common heritage for all mankind”.
Pl1E TIL Saturn’s moon Enceladus has gysers that shoot large jets of water vapor into space and according to NASA “is emerging as the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it.”
Wkn9B TIL about Inaccessible Island, an island that is incredibly hard to get to. Normally you can only get to it a few days a year. Very harsh waters and bad airstreams make it difficult for boat or aircraft.
woPmM TIL WW2 sunken ships are being "grave robbed" due to their incredibly valuable steel
R7P1a TIL about Brandon Green - 18 years old, tortured, mutilated beaten and injected with psychedelics over the course of 6 Days. To this day Krystal Cole has never been charged for this crime