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TIL Omni Magazine was an influential publication that ran from 1978 to 1995. Created by Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and wife Kathy Keeton, it featured interviews with scientists such as Freeman Dyson, art from H.R. Giger and Chris Foss, and original fiction from authors such as Isaac Asimov

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OoEeX TIL that the worlds longest wedding veil was/is 63 football fields long.
D14xe TIL on September 12th 2001, the day after 9/11, The Queen had the Royal Guards break protocol and play the United State's National Anthem for the Americans stranded in London
e0L1D TIL the Endurance Expedition crew was shipwrecked and stranded in the Antarctic in 1914 for two years, and miraculously the entire crew survived.
v1lB7 TIL some ranchers around Yellowstone National Park are using old heritage breeds of cattle because those breeds are more maternal and defensive of their calves, so they are much more likely to deter predators like bears and wolves.
YpNov TIL the Hungarian physician Semmelweis proved that doctors washing their hands (not yet standard for mid-19th century Europe) greatly reduced hospital maternal mortality.As germs weren't discovered yet,he was ridiculed & later dismissed from his post. He mentally broke down & died in a mental asylum