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pO TIL an Olympian was born with a collapsed lung, diagnosed with asthma, stands little over 5ft, weights 115ibs and is now a double Olympic gold medalist in track cycling
wonG6 TIL that pro-wrestler Biff Wellington was found dead the same day his former tag team partner Chris Benoit infamously took his own life after murdering his wife and son earlier that weekend
wLo0P TIL that there are a pair of replica Titanics, 4 stories tall, that serve as museums to the disaster. They're in rural Tennessee and Missouri, amongst cornfields, 3000 miles from the disaster.
BgMke TIL that the bidet was an invention of French furniture makers in the 1600's, though no exact date or inventor is known. Historical antecedents and early functions of the bidet are believed to include devices used for contraception. The bidet wasn't widespread outside of France until after WWII.
e0PNb TIL In tropical rainforest ecosystems, dung is a very valuable and limited resource, so instead randomly searching for it on the forest floor, dung beetles actually wait by the anus of the monkey. They grab it as it falls out and actually fall to earth with it.