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TIL Jessica Fletcher's sleuthing landed the fictional author a Guinness World Record title. She holds a Guinness World Record for being the most prolific amateur sleuth

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Y7Xpr TIL of Amedeo Giannini, who made bank of America successful by making it accessibile to hard working low income class
k5ng TIL that a captive killer whale at MarineLand discovered it could regurgitate fish onto the surface of the water, attracting sea gulls, and then eat the birds. Four others then learned to copy the behavior.
x6bAg TIL: Open Skies is an international treaty signed by 34 nations which allows member states to conduct unarmed surveillance flights over any part of each others territory.
YDZv TIL There is a non-profit that operates boats that pick women up in their country where abortions are illegal then sails out to international waters (where Dutch laws are in effect on the ship) to perform the medical abortions
JGPl TIL of the “Hygiene Hypothesis”, which states that a kid’s environment can be too clean to stimulate a kid’s immune system resulting in those kids getting sick more than kids brought up in households in which the parents don’t constantly douse everything/everyone in disinfectant & hand sanitizer.