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TIL that the Guinness Book of World Records was started by Guinness Beer to stop bar arguments

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j6j4a TIL Jerry Springer was born in a London Underground station that was being used as a bomb shelter during WWII.
YxOv TIL that there is a protein in the human body named after Pikachu. It transmits electrical impulses from the eyes to the brain. (crosspost r/pokemon)
9wpG7 TIL Thomas Edison controlled most of the film industry in New Jersey which annoyed smaller independent producers and filmmakers. They retaliated by moving their independent films to Hollywood, and eventually became Universal, Paramount and 20th-century Fox.
0w9VA TIL that US president George H.W. Bush vomited on then prime minister of Japan.
4XWwb TIL John Boyne wrote “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” in two days, and that the book has been condemned by many Jewish scholars for pushing historical inaccuracies, downplaying the horror of concentration camps, and presenting Nazis as sympathetic figures