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TIL Guinness World Record’s and Guinness beer are the same company, and was created in order to settle arguments debated in pubs

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Pd8Z TIL that the FBI uses “scores” of disguised, low-flying surveillance planes in most major cities
5YjYP TIL Diogo Alves committed the famous “Aqueduct Murders” 1836-1840 and was the penultimate person to be hanged in Portugal. Scientists wanted to study the brain of a serial killer and so preserved his head in a glass vessel. It is still viewed today in the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine.
ePb6 TIL that Israeli secret service, the Mossad, hatched a plan in the 1950s to bomb areas in Egypt where Americans gathered, and make these attacks appear to be the work of Muslim extremists. The plot was discovered and it’s known as ‘The Lavon Affair’.
xpPo TIL That for about 5 months in 2008 it was 100% legal to abandon your teenage child by bringing them to a hospital and driving off. During this period over 35 teenagers were abandoned by their parents.
78adZ TIL about Oliver Pollock, the man who created the US dollar sign (and went broke funding a war)