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TIL that 13% of finishers tested at the 2002 Boston Marathon had hyponatremia (caused by overconsumption of fluids)

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9Yl17 TIL during WW2 when Ford produced the Merlin engine they claimed they couldn't following the sent plans. Rolls-Royce, designer of the Merlin, assumed Ford was incapable of meeting their high standards, only to learn that the tolerances were too loose and didn't meet the precision required for cars
ZZKa TIL Caltech students, as a part of a long running pranking war, infiltrated an MIT fair and handed out 400 T-shirts that read “MIT” on the front and “because not everybody can go to Caltech” on the back.
OJX6 TIL in 2012, a lone hacker mapped the entire Internet using a botnet running on 420,000 routers and released 9TB of data.
EgKmo TIL there is a company in Las Vegas that hires private planes specifically for people to join the “Mile High Club”
5VynR TIL that the most famous poem by Zhang Zongchang--a 'warrior poet' who was named Time's 'Basest Warlord'--reads "You tell me to do this, he tells me to do that. You're all bastards. Go fuck your mother."