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TIL of Bog Butter, animal fat that has been stored in North European swamps for thousands of years and is still edible.

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DmYg TIL Bill Nye and his neighbour, Arrested Development star Ed Begley Jr., are in an ongoing competition to see who can have the “lowest carbon footprint”
KOBo4 TIL that Frank Carney, co-founder of Pizza Hut, was a franchisee of Papa Johns Pizza and owned 133 of their locations.
neVkd TIL of Rosie Ruiz, a 26 year old woman who won the Boston Marathon with one of the best times, only to be found out she had emerged from the spectators near the finish line. She'd previously rode the subway for the New York marathon too.
4kk7g TIL that in 2017 a sailor was stranded and alone on a cargo ship near the Suez Canal for almost 4 years. Since the owner was having financial difficulties and the captain had gone ashore, the local court declared the sailor the legal guardian.
Lk8DP TIL that prior to establishing an acting career, Harrison Ford worked as a roadie for The Doors. He stated that after the job was done he was "was one step away from joining a Jesuit monastery" and that he "couldn't keep up with those guys. It was too much."