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TIL The Guinness Book of Records was originally published by Guinness Breweries as a reference for settling bar arguments.

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oBgbo TIL that France's longest border (730km/450mi) isn't with any European nation, but actually with Brazil in South America!
6KmJ TIL: A Soviet pilot made a bet with his co-pilot that he can land the plane blind with curtained cockpit windows.The plane crashed at the landing strip and came to rest upside down killing 70 people.
xVxB0 TIL that Thomas Edison Jr., unlike his famous father, was a terrible inventor. Eventually, he resorted to selling snake oil like the "Edison Magno-Electric Vitalizer", embarrassing his father so much that he was given an allowance of 900 dollars a week to stop marketing his own "inventions".
ne1AG TIL This photo of U.S. Army code breakers trained by William Friedman and his wife Elizebeth during WW1 spells out ‘Knowledge is Power.’ By facing either forward or sideways, the soldiers formed a coded phrase utilizing Sir Francis Bacon’s biliteral cipher.
6EMQJ TIL about body farms where they study the decomposition in a variety of settings to solve deaths