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TIL Guinness World Records and Ripley Entertainment (Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!) are owned by the same conglomerate based in Vancouver, BC.

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JJK4 TIL early telephones had no ringers and no hang-up hooks. Callers would get the attention of those they were calling by yelling loudly (often, “ahoy!”) into the receiver until someone on the other end noticed.
J1KA8 TIL Galileo's middle finger is on display in Florence
rRy6y TIL: LSD is one of the least toxic recreational drugs, that people have consumed 550 times a normal dose and have had beneficial outcomes from doing so.
p8v5Z TIL the first 'spam' email was sent 40 years ago this month, when Gary Thuerk sent a message advertising a new model of computer to all 393 ARPANET addresses on the West Coast of the US.
wlBY TIL many trains in the UK still dump their shit directly on the tracks.