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TIL Guinness beer and Guinness book of world records is the same company (though not officially related anymore)

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W7D64 TIL that in 1941, a 73 year old Nepali activist named Yogmaya Neupane led 67 of her followers—including women and children—in a mass suicide by jumping into a river to protest Nepal’s brutal dictatorship. None of their bodies were ever found.
xpkD TIL The 2005 Energy Policy Act contains a provision commonly known as the “Halliburton loophole” which exempts drilling companies involved in fracking operations to be exempt from Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, and CERCLA
gMD47 TIL Catholics are allowed to offer incense before altars of Buddha, who is seen as a most venerable, not a sign of worshiping God.
Qeoe TIL A customer had to be dragged from a burning Hamburg, Germany sex shop by firefighters when he refused orders to evacuate. He had shut himself inside a private booth to watch a film (“Throbbin Hood”) and was heard complaining (while coughing from smoke inhalation) that he hadn’t “finished yet”
eNJ6 Today I learned that the waiting list for season tickets for the NFL Green Bay Packers is 30 years.