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TIL the British military determined that only 1 in 100 trained female soldiers had the physical capacity to function in infantry.

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P1Ke TIL That a 456lb man underwent a clinically supervised fast for 382 days. Took multivitamins, lost 275lbs, crapped every 40-50 days.
XEVkk TIL that 21 detached human feet have been found in the Salish Sea (near Vancouver and Seattle) between 2007 and 2019. The odds of finding just two dismembered feet in the same location is a million to one. No one definitively knows what caused this phenomenon.
KbE TIL that in the first 10 years of the Tour de France,(1904-1914) many of the cyclists cheated by taking buses and trains instead of cycling the race.
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bMKE TIL that 30 years ago, the Philadelphia mayor approved a bombing on MOVE activists, killing nearly a dozen people—without repercussion.