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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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X047R TIL: I that Wendy's created a D&D like role-playing game called the Feast of Legends, you help Queen Wendy defeat the evil Ronald McDonald.
e0mlL TIL the venom from the Brazilian Wandering Spider contains a protein (PnTx2-6) that has been found to induce priapism (a persistent, long lasting erection). In 2011, a research study was conducted using this protein to treat erectile dysfunction with success found in treating mice.
e5W4 TIL Disney murdered scores of Lemmings for the ‘suicide scene’ in the 1958 movie White Wilderness. Producers pushed and threw them off a cliff while shooting footage of the cruelty, then framed it as a natural occurrence for the audience.
GYjEG TIL the legendary golden fleece sought by Jason and the Argonauts in Greek mythology is thought to have been inspired by the lustrous fur of the golden takin, a hoofed animal native to the eastern Himalayan mountain range and one of four takin subspecies. The takin is the national animal of Bhutan.
b9wr0 TIL about a Korean folktale called The Farting Daughter-in-law or Banggwijaengi myeoneuri. It's about a woman who destroys her husband's house with one of her destructive farts which causes his family to throw her out. They take her back after she knocks fruit off a tree with her farts.