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TiL Guinness Book of Records was invented to settle bar arguments.

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5VdAB TIL, about CFB Suffield, host to the largest army training area in Canada
NXPrE TIL in 2011 the burial site of a "sorcerer" from the late Holocene was discovered near Adelaide in Australia
p8Rj8 TIL of a poodle that fell 13 stories, hitting and killing and elderly woman. A second woman was killed after a bus hit her as she came to see the incident, and a man died of a heart attack after witnessing the events.
VBEB0 TIL that in 1956, the Comics Code Authority tried to prevent a story from being printed because it involved a black astronaut, even though this was never actually forbidden by the Code. Fortunately, the publisher managed to get the CCA to back down by threatening to take the matter to court.
49o TIL that the inventor of the Super Soaker reinvested most of his earnings from the toy into energy technology research.