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TIL that an officer of the California highway patrol ,Sgt. Kevin Briggs, has stopped more then 200 people from committing suicide on the golden gate bridge.

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p8gkG TIL Pope Pius II sent an angry letter to Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI) rebuking him after word spread that he held a 5 hour orgy at a child's baptism. Pius wrote "In order to have more freedom for your amusements you forbade entry to the husbands, fathers, brothers, and relations.."
6aRm TIL TIL 98 years ago Indian Meat Packing Company agreed to sponsor an employee team for $500. Three years later they dropped their ownership. The Packers are worth more than 1.4 billion today.
JY9Bj TIL: Yesterday (July 4, 2020 at 0634 CDT) was Earth’s Aphelion day, meaning we were the farthest we’ll from the Sun this year. The next Perihelion (the closest we are) will be January 2, 2021 at 0750 CDT.
d8VDZ TIL A Tiger's roar is so loud that is can be heard from over 2 miles away and can reach up to 114 decibels, which is about as loud as a jet airplane taking off.
LQllm TIL Andrew Johnson was one of 12 US Presidents to not graduate from college, and the only one to have "no formal schooling of any kind," and Abraham Lincoln, another of the 12, "had only about a year of formal schooling of any kind."