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TIL that humans are the best endurance runners of the animal kingdom. We evolved for running long distances

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XQbX TIL that due to the process of blending together beef from multiple delivery batches, a McDonald’s burger patty “can be made up of the meat from more than 100 cattle”
a8EPJ TIL about Doc Holliday/John Henry Holliday a dentist and gunfighter in the American West, who participated in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. He is known as the deadliest dentist in the west.
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