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TIL that Guinness world records have changed their business by becoming a publicity stunt for the Rich and The Powerful; as they have changed from recording and archiving records to a place where people can simply pay money to get easy records to break or simply making a new one.

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X091j TIL of the Marikina Valley fault system. A fault system that passes through the densely populated Metro Manila.
wQn1 TIL: The NHS in the UK had only one man registered as a rectal teaching assistant, offering his anus to be examined by trainee doctors. TIAL: He has lost his job to a robot anus.
awpjy TIL while high on substances and during a meeting with a CBS exec in Germany, Ozzy Osbourne performed a Nazi goose-step on the executive's table before dipping his testicles in the executive's wine and then urinating in it. He only came to find out what he had done later by Sharon Osbourne.
j65Rn TIL about Dr. Benjamin Rush who provided the Corps of Discovery with 600 "Dr. Rush's Bilious Pills," powerful laxatives containing 50% mercury, colloquially called "thunderclappers." The high mercury content provided a tracer that has allowed the Corps' campsites to be identified via soil testing.
XEdaP TIL William Rankin survived a (40 minute) fall through a thunderstorm cloud. Suffering immediate frostbite and mid-air internal bleeding, while being suspended aloft by updrafts, he watched lightning appear, which he described as blue blades several feet thick, and thunder that he could feel.