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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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p847e TIL that despite paperwork audits indicating that working conditions in Nike’s sweatshop suppliers were steadily improving, qualitative audits found that in reality, nearly 80% of them had either worsened or stayed the same.
Yp1Nd TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary wouldn't have been what it is today if not for an insane American Civil War surgeon who cut his penis off. He contributed thousands of quotations and word entries by writing from an asylum.
wLVM1 TIL Bill Bixby, who played the original Incredible Hulk's David Banner, had a 7-year old son who died in 1981 of a rare infection. His wife committed suicide as a result of their loss. Bill's next marriage ended in divorce at the same time he was diagnosed with cancer. Bill died in 1993 at age 59.
1aV9O TIL Madonna leaked a fake version of her album to pirates where every song was a loop of her saying "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" Then a hacker posted the real songs on her own site for everyone to download.
PMwG TIL that in the 1970s, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (now Pope Francis I) hid some of the Argentine military dictatorship’s political prisoners from a human rights watch group. The military routinely executed political prisoners by throwing them from an airplane into a river and sold their orphaned kids.