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TIL about the "Golden Tabby" tiger. A extremely rare type of tiger that does not have the distinctive black stripes. Only about 30 are left in the world.

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8e6DV TIL the longest marathon run lasted 54 years 8 months 6 days 5 hours 32 minutes 20.3 seconds: Shizo Kanakuri, a Japanese runner, entered the race in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. He left the course because of exhaustion, silently returned to Japan, became a teacher, only resume the race in 1967.
R7wbw TIL that the first paramedics were 25 African Americans in Pittsburgh, trained through the Freedom House Enterprises which was a program championed by an activist and the doctor who invented CPR, in 1967.
edL5 TIL to combat their population decline, a Danish travel agency ran commercials encouraging people to go on vacation and procreate. They provided an “Ovulation Discount” and offered a 3 year supply of diapers and a free trip if you conceived on the first trip.
awdbb TIL An effective way to remember something is to use the SQ3R principal. Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review.
EgejW TIL 6 years after Martha Stewart started her own catering company in 1976, a publisher (impressed with her chef skills) got her to write a cookbook which launched her career. By 1999, she consolidated her "media empire" & took it public which made her the first female self-made billionaire in the US