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TIL that although no longer connected to the beer company, Guinness World Records was founded by the managing director of Guinness Brewery in the 1950s.

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V8OQ TIL that there are white black bears, Kermode bears, also known as the “spirit bears” living in British Columbia in Canada.
6Oam TIL that Adolf Hitlers father beat him severely every day. When his father found out that he was planning to run away, he beat him so hard that he went into a coma for days - his family unsure if he was going to live
R5Lrl TIL there were Greek Buddhist monks long before there were Thai, Tibetan, Chinese or Japanese Buddhist monks.
6ZNJ TIL Jellyfish live in every ocean, and have survived five mass extinctions, for possibly 700 million years or more, despite most of them lacking specialized digestive, osmoregulatory, central nervous, respiratory, or circulatory systems.
LQdA9 TIL of "menu anxiety" which is defined as distress caused when ordering a meal at a restaurant. A survey showed that over 30% of Americans experience it. Of those who do, some try to avoid it by obsessively reviewing the menu online before showing up to the restaurant.