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MeeyK TIL that the Mandate of Heaven, which legitimized the rule of Chinese Emperors, differed from the Divine Right of Kings in that natural disasters and revolts were seen as a sign from Heaven that the Emperor had lost the mandate and therefore deserved to be overthrown.
6DKY TIL A man named Dean Karnazes has a physiological advantage in that he doesn’t seem to have a lactate threshold; thus was able to run 350 miles in under 81hours without sleep
xGg5 TIL That in the Vietnamese version of Cinderella at the end, Cinderella cut up her step sister, put the remains into a jar of food and sent it to her Step Mother to eat, she enjoyed it until she found her skull at the bottom of the jar and instantly died of shock.
jNJAn TIL that the Teddy Bear was named after Theodore Roosevelt when a political cartoon was released showing his refusal to kill a helpless bear deeming it "unsportsmanlike".
e6ek TIL An Indian man named Dashrath Manjhi carved a 360 foot long path through a mountain over the course of 22 years to reduce the distance between his village and the hospital down from 70km to 1km, to ensure no one would die like his wife did because they could not get medical care.