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EgJ0W TIL that the Guinness World Record for the most T-shirts worn at once is 257. The record was set by Sanath Bandara in Sri Lanka.
PY9bE TIL that when Mister Rogers filed a police report on his car being stolen, it was returned 48 hours later with a note that read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”
BY8x TIL that the US government during WW2 asked the press to avoid discussing “polonium, uranium, ytterbium, hafnium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, thorium, deuterium”. Only uranium was secret, for the Manhattan Project, but was listed with the other elements to hide its importance.
E1JVx TIL In 1996, a group of scientists claimed to have found evidence of microscopic fossils formed by Martian primitive life billions of years ago on a meteorite discovered in Antarctica.
P1N1Z TIL While Charles Darwin and the Captain of the HMS Beagle Robert FitzRoy mostly got along well together, they still had quarrels sometimes "bordering on insanity", as Darwin later recalled. The captain had such a violent temper, his outbursts gained him the nickname "Hot Coffee".