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TIL by eating sausages during Lent in 1522, Christoph Froschauer and Huldrych Zwingli defied Church fasting rules, igniting the Swiss Reformation.

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n88B TIL that Alan Eustacea computer scientist and Google’s Senior Vice President of Knowledge, broke Felix Baumgartner’s record for highest-altitude freefall jump at 25.74 miles.
lob97 TIL that before Sean Connery landed the role of James Bond, Sir Matt Busby, the legendary Manchester United manager tried to sign Connery to play football for the club.
W7JwA Til that Eratosthenes, the Greek philosopher who was the first known person to calculate the circumference of the Earth, died aged 82 by voluntarily starving himself to death because he was going blind
R7wEQ TIL that Ariel (The Little Mermaid 1989) was originally going to have blonde hair. This was changed in part due to the fact that mermaid Madison (Splash 1984) already had it.
R7gNQ TIL that when helium is cooled to near absolute zero it becomes a liquid that flows against gravity.