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TIL that for a time, the Guinness World Records were owned by Hit Entertainment, a now-defunct children's media company that owned the rights to Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, Barney, and Pingu

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j6yYR TIL The last incarnation of the Fiat 500 (1972—1975) was the R model ... the fuel gauge was omitted and only the low fuel indicator remained.
LPl9 TIL that the plural of octopus is ‘octopuses’ or 'octopodes.’ The word 'octopi’ is actually incorrect.
R0A6 TIL there is a species of deer in Germany who won’t cross the border where the Iron Curtain once stood, even though that border has been gone physically for 20 years.
VKP0 TIL that doctors before the eleventh century would drink the urine of their patients to determine whether or not they had diabetes. A sugary taste indicated the person was diabetic.
PYkWg TIL Nan Madol, “Ghost City of the Pacific”, megalithic basalt stone structures weighing 800,000 tons, standing 25 feet high and 17 feet thick covering 200 acres built on the coral reef 1,000 years ago in Pohnpei, Micronesia.