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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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magE TIL The current image of what everyone thinks Jesus looks like is actually 15th Century Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. Alexander VI commissioned Leonardo Di Vinci to recast Jesus in the image of his own beloved son Cesare Borgia.
kOgXg TIL the phrase survival of the fittest is popularly wrongly attributed to Charles Darwin. It was coined by a philosopher called Herbert Spencer seven years before Darwin's publication of his theory of natural history, The Origin of the Species.
LQl8m TIL there were human zoos in the 20th Century
YlMZ TIL in Canada you can serve a prison sentence on weekends.
lwaV TIL, in 2013, an expedition to recover bodies from a tugboat sunk at 30 meter depth, found one survivor trapped in an air bubble, in pitch black, after 3 days