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TIL that a whiskey company once gave out branding irons as part of a sales promotion, resulting in some customers inevitably requiring emergency surgery.

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woldY TIL the only Monegasque competitor to ever have won an Olympic medal Olympic is Julien Médécin, who received a Bronze medal for Architecture in 1924
byja TIL when the face of Italian fashion model Fabio, which has graced the cover of hundreds of romance novels, got struck by a goose on a roller coaster, he refused to sue, saying that he was not interested in profiting from the accident, but only wanted the park to install proper safety measures.
kJYEg TIL "the Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown" is a special from 1988 that was meant to be Charles Schulz's most ambitious peanuts special it costed millions of dollars he later commented and said "I wanted this to be my Citizen Kane, but it's not." The special was not well-received upon its airing
AGbn TIL the burning sensation felt when applying rubbing alcohol to cuts is caused by nerve cells in the cut that are trying to protect you by responding to heat. The alcohol lowers the amount of heat needed to turn on these cells so much that your own body temperature causes the burning.
a8GJ0 TIL Josef Koeberl set a world record by standing in a box filled with 440 pounds of ice for 2 hours, 30 minutes, and 57 seconds. Wearing only swim trunks, he beat his previous record by 30 minutes, enduring the pain by focusing on positive thoughts.