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TIL that in 1959 Guinness dropped 150,000 special “messages in a bottle” into the Atlantic Ocean to celebrate its 200th birthday. Making it one of the longest ad campaigns ever.

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BrvEK TIL that in 1990, unemployed nuclear physicist André Gardes tried to invade the island of Sark (a feudal system until 2008) on his own. Sark's only policeman complimented his gun, Gardes showed it off to him and the policeman took it and imprisoned him for 7 days. Gardes tried again a year later.
KOBLR TIL In 2005 there were so many tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic that we ran out of names and had to start using the Greek alphabet. The last Hurricane was Epsilon (December), while the last tropical storm was Zeta (Janurary). Countless records were broken during this season.
Br6bb TIL Albrecht von Wallenstein was the most successful Catholic general of the 30 years war, upon realizing the war was futile and could last decades he tried to organize peace only to be assassinated by his emperor. He was proven right with the war lasting another 14 years and 6 million more dead
M7KPa Today I learned about Jake Adelstein who wrote a news article about a Yakuza boss who made a deal with the FBI to come to the US for a liver transplant, skipping over everyone else on the waiting list.
rNG6M Today I learned that the British fascist politician Arnold Spencer Leese (16 November 1878 – 18 January 1956) was initially prominent as a veterinary expert on camels.