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TIL Guinness Records was founded by Guinness beer to be used to settle disputes in bars.

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8R9G TIL: An American charity pays drug addicts roughly $300 to get sterilized.
LQXN0 TIL Gloria Williams, who pleaded guilty to posing as a hospital employee and abducting Kamiyah Mobley from her mother's arms in the maternity ward, was sentenced to 18 years, which was the length of time Mobley was separated from her birth family.
0dEEv TIL the Baseball Hall of Fame has never paid a dollar to acquire a single item
8e698 TIL that in 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle to raise money, and the prizes were live babies.
XwJk TIL that the album “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by The Beatles was inspired by the album “Pet Sounds” by The Beach Boys, which was inspired by the album “Rubber Soul” by The Beatles.