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TIL only Kenyan runners have won the Commonwealth Games 3000 metre steeplechase since 1994

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EgxnV TIL of the Noble Train of Artillery. During the Revolutionary War, Henry Knox managed to transport 60 tons of artillery 300 miles in three months during the dead of winter. "This stupendous feat of logistics" was widely credited as a catalyst which broke the British siege of Boston.
VMA40 TIL that when the United States bought Alaska from Russia, due to a combination of the International Date Line moving and switching to the Gregorian calendar, the days from October 8th through 17th in 1867 never occurred in Alaska.
pR5A TIL that women made most of the oldest-known cave art paintings. By comparing the relative lengths of certain fingers researchers determined that three-quarters of the handprints were female.
P4Le TIL milk has peptides that mimic the effect of opiates in the brain causing very real cravings and opiate withdrawals for milk lovers.
oRpmW TIL Daniel Radcliffe was in Bath when he received the news that he had been cast as Harry Potter! and to celebrate, he was permitted to watch Faulty Towers for an additional 30 minutes after going to bed.