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TIL there is a bottled water company in Australia which extracts 100% of its water from fruits - by pressing apples and oranges and then separating the juice from the H2O

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OpG6 TIL that Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of the Holocaust memoir “Night”, started the Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity. The charity lost nearly $16 million in the Madoff Ponzi Scheme. Wiesel and his wife also lost their entire personal life savings.
j8Mn TIL Louis Zamperini got drunk and stole a flag from Hitler’s house
KBd4 [TIL] Muhammad Ali’s IQ was found to be in the 16th percentile, protecting him from the draft
Jp0B TIL an Australian doctor named Dr Jack Barnes stung himself, his nine year old son, and a local lifeguard with the Irukandji jellyfish to prove it was the then-unknown cause of Irukandji Syndrome. All three developed the syndrome, and the jellyfish was named Carukia barnesi after him.
Wjn9 TIL Donnie Yen once beat up a gang of 8 men who were harassing him at a club; they had to be hospitalised.