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TIL Mr Rogers poured the 100 billionth Crayola crayon

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a400 TIL Ambercrombie burns its unsold clothes. They don’t donate them because it is a bad image for the company to have poor people wear them.
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oBvB8 TIL the only reason Hunter S. Thompson lost the election for sheriff of Pitkin County, Colorado was because the Republican and Democratic parties conspired together to maintain their oligopoly on government.
LQ640 TIL that tennis shoes were originally made for the British Navy when on their slippery decks. When the shoes came into the market in 1892, they were known as plimsolls. The shoes were then given the name sneakers because they had no sound when walking
GAY7N TIL It sometimes snows in the Sahara Desert; even as recently as January 2022