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TIL The Guinness Book of Records was originally published by Guinness Breweries as a reference for settling bar arguments.

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ONy1 TIL of Foxes that can jump 3 feet in the air to dive 3 feet into snow to catch mice. They determine the speed and trajectory of the mouse before nose diving with pinpoint accuracy.
1a50O TIL in 2017 a Qatar Airways plane had to make an emergency landing after a woman used her sleeping husband's thumb to unlock his phone and discovered he was cheating on her.
JYy98 TIL insufficient sleep has an impact on total daily energy expenditure, food intake, & weight gain. Increased food intake during insufficient sleep is a physiological adaptation to provide energy needed to sustain additional wakefulness;
woLr7 TIL that 'Meow Wolf' (immersive art collective that built the 'House of Eternal Return' in Santa Fe, Las Vegas Area 51 center, etc.) got its name by having all the founders put two scraps of paper with a word on each one in a hat, and the first two scraps drawn became the name of the collective
7NOr TIL that London used to have an underground railway solely dedicated to the distribution of mail.