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TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had nominated St. Isidore of Seville to be the patron saint of the Internet, a seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who tried to record everything ever known.

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4XaZo TIL the idea for the Guinness Book of World Records was conceived when Sir Hugh Beaver (Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery) attended a party in Ireland in the early 1950s, where he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe* and failed to find an answer in any reference book.
9Y4YG TIL Seth Rogan has repeatedly tried to make a movie about the 90's battle between Sega and Nintendo, but keeps getting turned down.
JYZ1B TIL while Sharon was giving up, sick in bed with cancer, Ozzy asked Robin Williams to visit her. He hopped in her sick bed randomly and apparently her family went from crying to peeing themselves laughing in a second. She loved it and went from giving up to chemo the next day.
0d4by TIL from 1965 to 1998, the most popular way Gatorade was packaged was in glass bottles. After this, plastic bottles became the most popular form of packaging due to safety reasons (no glass shattering), being more lightweight, cheaper, and was seen as more environmentally friendly due to recycling.
69m5J TIL that serial killer Luis Garavito (killer of 193-300+ children) planned to become a politician, pastor, and pediatric social worker upon his release from prison after the Colombian government reduced his sentencing to 22 years. He died in 2023 just months before he was to be released.