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TIL Guiness Draft has fewer calories than Orange Juice.

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ADyko TIL Piz Buin sunscreen Brand is named after the Alpine mountain between Switzerland and Austria where the inventor, a chemistry student, got sunburned during a climbing trip. The sunscreen was originally invented for use on mountains and glaciers, and called "Glacier Cream".
GwEN TIL the wife of disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay, Linda Lay, sold roughly 500,000 shares of Enron 10 to 30 minutes before news about the collapse of the company went public. She was never charged with any of the events related to Enron.
8arXP TIL that there are more IPv6 addresses than there are atoms on the surface of the Earth.
a8DbZ TIL Smokers are 16 more times likely to develop optic neuropathy, a sudden loss of vision, which often leads to permanent blindness.
9wygQ TIL that Earth orbits where the Sun currently is in real-time, not where it was 8 minutes ago - even though gravity propagates at light speed. Newtonian gravitation does not work unless it is assumed to be instantaneous.