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TIL A man won a bet that he could have sex with 2 women for 12 hours but died shortly afterward due to ingesting an entire bottle of viagra.

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78XM TIL that the United States Marine Corps tested the usefulness of ordinary skateboards in urban combat
kOZ0B TIL: Rogue waves can occur occur in the open ocean creating walls of water up to 40m high, as well as rogue troughs which can create a deep pit in the open ocean.
rWed TIL Antarctica has 24 different time zones. The scientists who reside there go by either the time of their home land or the supply line that brings them food and equipment.
5V57B TIL in 1954, Jim Lovell lost his navigation systems while flying at night over the Sea of Japan. He was able to locate his carrier using the bioluminescence of dinoflagellates in its wake and successfully land. He would later go on to land the damaged Apollo 13 capsule.
WmpX TIL taking a daily multivitamin is a highly contentious topic with studies proving it a useless, potentially harmful, waste of time/money and other studies proving it a beneficial way to insert minerals which would otherwise be non-existent in the average diet.