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TIL the director of the Guinness Breweries, became in 1951 involved in an argument about the fastest bird in Europe. The realisation there is no book for world records made him create “The Guinness Book of Records” that itself holds the world record as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time.

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1a788 TIL: The oldest mummies in the world are turning into black slime. Over 100 Chinchorro mummies found near the Atacama Desert in Chile are turning gelatinous due to bacterial growth associated with increasing humidity. The mummies date to ~5000 BC
6L87 TIL that there is only one surviving Ninjutsu master left. He has chosen not to appoint a new ninja grandmaster, and consequently let the lineage of the last surviving ninja clan die with him because “the art of ninjutsu has no place in the modern age.”
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