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TIL Navy SEALs used to be waterboarded as a part of their training but the process was stopped when no SEAL could pass it, leading to bad morale.

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4jQJ TIL the director of the Guinness Breweries, became in 1951 involved in an argument about the fastest bird in Europe. The realisation there is no book for world records made him create “The Guinness Book of Records” that itself holds the world record as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time.
gMWQ4 TIL that some people pronounce the “s” sound by putting there tongue to their top teeth, and others make it by putting their tongue to their bottom teeth. They are know as “tippers” and “dippers” respectively.
oG8L TIL the writers of Parks & Rec didn’t know Nick Offerman could already play the saxophone when they made his character Ron Swanson a secret saxophone player
grnD4 TIL that the .io domain was originally meant for the British Indian Ocean Territory but startups decided to use it because it was short.
R55lQ TIL Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, in a clinical study sanctioned by Disney, had a 70% success rate in helping pass kidney stones for simulated kidneys.