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TIL that Google founded Calico, an anti-ageing company designed to ultimately cure death

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yVKgJ TIL that there are quiet props for film and TV that replace typically noisy objects (i.e. paper bags)
PYeYw TIL that Gordon Ramsay once lost to a prison cook in an onion cutting competition. Ramsay offered him a job at one of his restaurants upon his release.
mxnPP TIL: A woman in Florida sued Hooters because she thought she won a Toyota, but instead won a Toy Yoda
QbLa TIL of Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian Explorer. In 1909, he tried to be the first man to reach the North Pole, but was beaten by Robert Peary. Upon hearing of Peary’s victory, Amundsen immediately mounted an expedition to the South Pole, which he became the first to reach in 1911.
NXvpN TIL that fortune telling is a class b misdemeanor in NY state (but is allowed for entertainment purposes only, rather than claiming it is the truth)