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TIL that many records in track and field including the long jump and high jump are unlikely to be broken due to modern athletes gravitating towards higher money sports such as sprinting or football.

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WGm8 TIL that the term “football” did not originally have anything to do with kicking a ball with your feet, but instead meant that a game was played on foot as opposed to on a horse, and hence was a game for “commoners”
pyep TIL that Myanmar changed from driving on the left to the right, on the advice of a wizard. In 1970.
4O5a TIL that in 1973, a study asked doctors to pick out healthy people sent to a psych ward by the researches. Doctors suspected 84 people of being healthy. The researchers actually never sent the healthy people. This led to fundamental doubt of the validity of modern psychological evaluation.
Ddjv TIL A Marine Corporal saved two fellow Marines in Iraq by covering a live grenade with his helmet and body.
v1jg7 TIL the photo of Pope John Paul II torn to pieces by Sinead O’Connor on SNL in 1992 was not a prop: "The photo itself had been on my mother's bedroom wall since the day the fucker was enthroned in 1978.”