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TIL The Guinness book of records was invented by the Guinness beer folks. They figured a book of verifiable facts would help stop bar arguments.

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9VBD TIL Nicholas Cage was offered the role of Aragon in the first Lord of the Rings film but turned it down due to ‘family obligations’
g7gW TIL that a handful of American revolutionary veterans survived long enough to have daguerreotypes taken of them
6Erdl TIL: Maine is the U.S. state closest to Africa.
lxXa TIL around 25% of the citizens of Greenland attempt suicide at some point in their lives.
9J0m TIL In 1848, the British East India Company sent Botanist Robert Fortune on a trip to China’s interior, an area forbidden to foreigners to steal tea seeds from China to India.He succeeded and within his lifetime, India surpassed China as the world’s largest tea grower.