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TIL some Ultramarathon Runners Remove their Toenails Permanently

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groDb TIL about Project Genetrix which was a United States Air Force program designed to launch General Mills manufactured surveillance balloons over China, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to take aerial photographs and collect intelligence.
QJ9Xa TIL the character of Hans Moleman has seemingly died 24 times on The Simpsons.
4VVa TIL that there’s a word for the day after tomorrow: overmorrow.
mxWoo TIL of Sam Panopoulos, a Greek Canadian restaurateur who in 1962 at the Satellite restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, decided to put ham and pineapple on a pizza, aiming for something sweet and savory. He called it the Hawaiian pizza and his food invention has earned wrath and praise ever since.
e0don TIL the word ‘penguin’ is likely to have originated from the welsh word pen (head) and gwyn (white).