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TIL Burt Shavitz, co-creator and face of Burt’s Bees, was an accomplished photographer prior to beekeeping and had photographs published in Life and Time Magazines.

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BM5W TIL that in 1527 189 Swiss guards held off 20,000 Mercenaries so the pope at the time could escape. The pope managed to escape and later hired the 40 guards that survived to be his personal guards.
jN0Nj TIL that One World Trade Center, at 541 meters (1776 feet) is taller than the combined height of the tallest buildings in Wyoming, Vermont, Maine, South Dakota, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, and West Virginia.
AD9xn TIL that in 1988, a man with OCD and extreme germophobia tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head with a rifle. However, he survived, and the bullet completely eliminated his mental disorder without causing any other damage to his brain.
looOV TIL that gravity has speed, and the speed of gravity appears to be the same as the speed of light
Y7jVB TIL in 2023 an amateur blogger biologist spotted several inconsistencies in the data published by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's scientists in their research papers, which led to a massive retraction campaign by the institute