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TIL before becoming an infamous preacher, young Jim Jones sold pet spider monkeys door to door for $29

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9w8xm TiL Guinness Book of Records was invented to settle bar arguments.
JmE1 TIL - ‘Petrichor’ is the word for 'the smell of rain.’ Petrichor is caused by the oil exuded by plants during dry times to slow seed growth being washed into the air by the rain.
7lVb TIL A man once sued Pepsi after trying to buy a Harrier fighter jet with Pepsi Points
699yY TIL that Florida has almost 8,500 miles of shoreline, which if made into a straight line would be more than 1/3 the circumference of Earth.
kJ4d4 TIL the woman who popularised “gender reveal parties” had multiple miscarriages, and when she finally had a pregnancy which lasted long enough to find out the gender of the baby, decided to throw a party to celebrate. She now regrets it.