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TIL Jonathan Lee Riches, after hearing the Guinness Book of World Records planned to name him the most litigious man, did what he did best and sued the publication.

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KYg8E TIL that Beefalo constitute a hybrid offspring of domestic cattle (usually a male), and the American bison (usually a female). The breed was created to combine the characteristics of both animals for beef production.
e0nED TIL that "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965) was rejected at first by CBS: they didn't like that amateur children were doing the voices, they didn't like the "anti-consumerism" theme of the plot -- and they didn't like the music.
wL5d1 TIL that in 1999, an engineer earned 1.25 million air miles by buying 12150 chocolate puddings for $3000, all in one day. To avoid suspicion, he told people he was stocking up for Y2K.
K1xw TIL after a female pedestrian in his community was killed by a red-light runner, a 74 year old Chinese man spent an entire day hurling bricks at bad drivers. He smashed over 30 red-light runners’ cars before the police asked him to stop.
6DjX TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, falsely claimed to have been a nuclear physicist. In reality, he flunked both high school and college, leaving after his sophomore year at George Washington University during which he failed a course of “Molecular and Atomic Physics.”