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TIL some marathon runners elect to have their toenails permanently removed. Their level of running causes friction on the toes and results in toenails routinely becoming damaged and detached. To circumvent chronic nail wounds, some people just get rid of them entirely.

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a8pWA TIL A man named Charles Osborne had hiccups non-stop for approximately 68 years, from 1922 to 1990. In 1922, he was weighing a hog for slaughter. He fell and busted a blood vessel in his brain resulting in him damaging a small part of the brain that inhibits the hiccup response.
e0d96 TIL USPS Trucks are 30 years old
x6v60 TIL the location of Washington, DC in the south was the result of “dinner table bargain” compromise between Jefferson and Madison from Virginia and Hamilton from New York, where the national government would assume the state’s debts.
N6kP TIL Frank Gusenberg, who was shot fourteen times during the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, when asked by the police who shot him replied “Nobody shot me.”
JYnbk TIL: The FBI investigated Bigfoot and publically released all of their records