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TIL about Thiovulum Majus, the fastest swimming bacterium. With an average speed of 615μm/s (or 53m/day).

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7rlNx TIL Only once in Oscar history have two performers won an Oscar for playing the same character.Brando won in 1972 for playing Vito Corleone and two years later Deniro also won for playing the same role. If Joaquin Phoenix wins for playing the Joker, he and Heath Ledger will become the second example
OGV6a TIL General Douglas MacArthur had an underage mistress named Isabel Rosario Cooper, who was 16 when he met her in 1930. From 1930 to 1934 he kept her in a Washington DC hotel suite while serving as the chief of staff of the US Army.
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