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TIL Longest marathon in history: the athlete that took more than half a century to cross the finish line

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R7rR7 TIL that Henry Ford used his personal newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, to argue that "the Jew" had caused WWI. He placed these newspapers in every new Model T automobile.
kJpYg TIL that when Margaret Keane sued her ex-husband Walter Keane for claiming credit for her artwork, the judge asked them both to paint in the courtroom. Walter refused, citing a sore shoulder, while Margaret finished her painting in just 53 minutes, proving she was the true artist.
EgEGw TIL about the winterworm, people pay ALOT to eat the cordyceps fungus in Asia. Made famous by the recent TV drama The Last of Us, prices are as high as $18,000 per kg. Eaten for its herbal properties its known as the viagra of Tibet.
EdP0 TIL the worse genocide (number wise) in modern times was not the Holocaust, but the genocide by Belgium in the Congo at the turn of the century (somewhere around 10 million killed).
PYWVL TIL that the Godfather II (1974) was the first movie sequel in history to win the academy award for best picture. Only 2 other sequels have ever won the award: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and LOTR: Return of the King (2003).