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TIL in 2012 a lifeguard named Tommy Lopez was fired for saving a drowning man who was outside the protected area

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9wLN7 TIL that pineapples are not native to the Hawaiian islands, but people nowadays associate the fruit with Hawaii because of James Dole and his company, the Dole Food Company (now Dole), through marketing and investment efforts between 1899 and 1933.
R7KBl TIL one man became the Roman Emperor by having the highest bid in an auction.
wLpQ1 TIL: In 2015, HitchBOT, a cheerful hitchhiking robot which was dependent on strangers to reach its destination as an experiment, managed to travel across the Netherlands, Canada, and Germany. It was beheaded after two weeks in the US after it ventured into Philadelphia.
XRLj TIL all the penicillin in the world comes from a single moldy cantaloupe in Illinois
x5wk TIL that in 1993 Pepsi ran a contest in the Philippines in which it promised 1 million pesos, roughly $40,000, to the person who found the number 349 inside his bottle cap. Pepsi went on to mistakenly print 800,000 winning caps, leading to outrage and death threats to Pepsi executives.