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TIL John Cena holds the world record for granting the most wishes through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. As of September 2022, he’s granted 650 wishes. No other individual has surpassed 200.

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6Zy7 TIL: There is no scientific data that shows Alcoholics Anonymous is effective and many addiction researchers think the AA model of abstinence from alcohol can increase the likelihood of binge drinking
P1EwZ TIL the mite A. grandis rides on the chins of ants, tapping the ant with its long forelegs inducing the ant to regurgitate food for the mite to eat (up to 5x/hr). The mite also steals food being passed to the host by other ants
GY6QE TIL that many High Schools required boys to swim nude until the 1960s. Girls swam clothed.
RYp8 TIL the richest man that drowned on the Titanic, John Jacob Astor IV, left his wife a five million-dollar fund, the use of his mansion in New York, one of his limos, and five of his prize horses on the condition she wouldn’t remarry… she did.
PYMJE TIL that, after the Siege of Leningrad, there were so many rats that four wagons of cats were brought in to fight them. Citizens erected statues to those cats many years later.