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TIL Guinness World Records aren't actual world records, you basically pay for the publicity to be in their book

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Y7n6W TIL that the trail of Lewis and Clark can be partially tracked through the mercury left from their excrement
epgl4 TIL about the black hole information paradox, a conflict in physics between quantum mechanics and general relativity. The latter says that matter which falls into a black hole is lost when the black hole evaporates, but this violates the principle of information conservation in quantum mechanics.
b9o1E TIL: Hells Angels attempted to kill Mick Jagger in 1975. They tried to drive a boat up to the Long Island Mansion he was staying at, however, the boat sank and the Hells Angels ended up having to swim for their lives.
9lEQ TIL that today, a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7 is considered most attractive by Indo-Europeans, and that even ancient civilizations’ representations of women most often fell in the 0.6-0.7 range.
9Y9m7 TIL that "aloneliness" is the opposite of loneliness, and it's the distress we feel when we don't get enough time alone.