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TIL Krogrer stores (QFC, King Soopers, Fred Meyer, etc.) will pay for shipping if you put packaging from their personal brands in a box and mail it back to them for reuse at no cost to you. You can use a box you already own. They also recycle tons of types of plastic in-store.

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jRBp TIL there’s an equivalent to Godwin’s Law for gun ownership debates called Markley’s Law: As an online discussion of gun owners’ rights grows longer, the probability of an ad hominem attack involving penis size approaches 1
YpNEW TIL in 1995 civil engineers warned the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, S. Korea that structural failure was inevitable and it needed to be evacuated. They didn't close because it was so busy and it collapsed that day with 500+ people inside. One director left without warning his daughter in law.
OoaK7 TIL That before World War II, Thanksgiving was basically Halloween - poor people begged door-to-door, so rich people wore tattered costumes and did the same.
0wpV1 TIL in 2008, the Netherlands voted "Swaffelen" as their word of the year. It means to repeatedly smack one's (usually either flaccid or semi-erect) penis against someone or something.
KYwgB TIL In 1985 an ASAT test program missile launched from a F15A climbing to 36,000 ft, struck and destroyed a satellite in orbit almost 300 miles away moving at 17,500 mph