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TIL that Misha Collins (Castiel from “Supernatural”) is the founder and Guiness Book Of World Records recipient of “The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen” or the world’s largest scavenger hunt.

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b9QRa TIL That it took over 4 years of development, burned through $35 million in R&D, and partook in 11 academic case studies to create the Steelcase Ergonomic 'Leap' Swivel Chair.
7jbp TIL aged five, Phil Collins entered a talent content at Butlins singing The Ballad of Davy Crockett, stopping the orchestra halfway through to tell them they were playing in the wrong key
YpNLP TIL British Parliament had an official discussion where they condemned the historical inaccuracies of the film U-571 and the rewriting of history to paint the Americans as heroes in an event they never even took part in. They felt it was unfair on the British sailors that lost their lives.
9YbMp TIL that in 1938, a physicist proposed an exact number for the total number of protons in the observable universe.
KO1vQ TIL About shorthand, a symbol based abbreviated version of writing that focuses on speed. Used in the past to take notes fast before the age of autocomplete.