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TIL in 1977 Indian painter, PK Mahanandia, sold his belongings and cycled 4,000 miles from India to Sweden to visit his love, Charlotte von Schedvin, because he couldn't afford a plane ticket. They're now married and have 2 children

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amkL TIL that in 1993 Pepsi ran a contest in the Philippines in which it promised 1 million pesos, roughly $40,000, to the person who found the number 349 inside his bottle cap. Pepsi went on to mistakenly print 800,000 winning caps, leading to outrage and death threats to Pepsi executives.
BrkmL TIL Sue Grafton, known author of the "alphabet series" ('"A" Is for Alibi', '"B" Is for Burglar', etc) died months after the release of '"Y" is for Yesterday', leaving her one book shy of the complete series.
R5LQl TIL that men having sex 2 times a week, will help reduce your risk of heart attack by 50%. This is based according to a 2010 study published in the American Journal of Cardiology conducted over a 16-year period with men aged 40 to 70.
OoJGR TIL Many products are getting smaller due to 'shrinkflation', for example Mars shrank its Maltesers, M&Ms by up to 15%. In the past, companies blamed the rising price of raw materials. Recently, these prices dropped back, but the shrinkage continued as manufacturers try to stealthily boost profits
d8Vj9 TIL of McArthur Wheeler who, in 1995, robbed two Pittsburgh banks with his face covered with nothing but lemon juice, which he believed would make it invisible to the surveillance cameras on the principle of invisible ink