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TIL: The Guinness Book of World Records was created by the managing director of Guinness Brewery as a way to solve trivia questions among bar patrons.

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NX5J8 TIL former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim's voice was used to record the longest audio greeting to extraterrestrials on the Voyager Spacecraft; approx. 7 years after the spacecraft was launched, Waldheim was publicly accused of participating in war crimes by famed "Nazi Hunter" Eli Rosenbaum
0wwBv TIL that as a part of his celibacy experiments, Mahatma Gandhi used to sleep nude with his young female companions which included his 17 year old grand-niece Mridula Gandhi
vR7 TIL - You can’t donate blood if you have done any of the following, even once: Had homosexual sex with a man, used a needle to inject yourself with drugs/steroids, were born in one of many African countries, have ever taken money in for sex, or had sex with an African in the last 12 months.
jN9dQ TIL of Grierson's Raid during the American Civil War. Union cavalry rode over 600 miles through Confederate territory destroying railroads, freeing slaves and inflicting ten times the casualties they received.
X0GdQ TIL there is no official Calvin and Hobbes merchandise besides the compilation books. Bill Watterson was vehemently against merchandising his characters and even went as far as to say, "Only thieves and vandals have made money on Calvin and Hobbes merchandise."