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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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epDwn TIL the Hindi/Sanskrit word that Ancient Indians (~5000 BCE) used and still use for "Study of Geography" and it is "Bhoo-Gol", literally "Bhoo" = Land or Earth and "Gol/Gola" = Round
jobE TIL: Locusts emerge from their burrows only after prime number of years to make it difficult for predators to evolve - a rare example of prime numbers in nature.
VMAlp TIL Quaker Oatmeal packages in 1902 contained a coupon redeemable for an actual deed to a small plot of land in Milford, CT.
nxYb TIL that NASA, in fact, did NOT spend millions of dollars producing the space pen while soviet astronauts simply used a pencil.
nlyo TIL That the websleuths forum has called Benjaman Kyle out as a faker and has archived the case.