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TIL the idea for the Guinness Book of World Records was conceived when Sir Hugh Beaver (Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery) attended a party in Ireland in the early 1950s, where he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe* and failed to find an answer in any reference book.

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4XyGw TIL: A Giant Tortoise, the last confirmed sighting of which, was in 1906, was discovered in 2019. The female Tortoise was discovered on Fernandia, an active shield volcano on the Galapagos Islands.
gnND TIL that the Nagasaki nuclear bomb was worth $25b (Today’s money). At 70k death toll, that’s one third of a million dollars per death.
ANgR7 TIL the chemical element calcium is a metal.
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