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TIL that unprotected sun exposure after acne can make scars permanent, while daily sunscreen can actually prevent most acne marks from forming.

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VBKXp TIL that Markus Persson, the billionaire creator of Minecraft, never finished high school
p8RY4 TIL a Scottish man fasted for 382 days, living on vitamin supplements and non-caloric beverages. He was morbidly obese, weighing 456 pounds, and lost 276 pounds. The fast was monitored by doctors, who detected no ill-effects. He never regained the weight. It was the longest recorded fast in history.
Qpb9 TIL that while some American restaurants have eliminated tipping, many have had to re-instate it after the “no-tipping” experiment failed. One restaurant lost 70% of its tipped staff. Another “couldn’t compete in the market” and was “faced with the options of raising prices […] or bailing out.”
N7WXe TIL that the reason old pubs have "Ye Old" instead of "The Old" is because when the printing press was invented in Germany, they didn't have any letters for the old letter Thorn, which made a "th" sound. Thorn ultimately was replaced with Y because they looked similar until the Th start was popular.
8aonP Today I Learned that there are at least 18 active gangs in the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department, with some having been in existence for over 50 years.