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TIL there used to be a Kroger supermarket in Atlanta nicknamed "murder Kroger" due to many homicides at the location.

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vPG5B TIL there is an entire industry of "family offices": firms dedicated to managing enormous, secretive pools of generational wealth for "ultra-high-net-worth individuals"
awQwA TIL: Singer-songwriter James Blunt was a former reconnaissance officer in the Life Guards regiment of the British Army and served under NATO during the 1999 Kosovo War. He was also a pallbearer at the funeral of Queen Mother.
leOA TIL Canada is the #1 foreign oil provider to the U.S.
OGX6 TIL that the Inuit traditionally carved snow goggles from caribou antlers to protect their eyes from excessive UV exposure
nWxn7 TIL about the "Phantom Time Hypothesis," which suggests that 297 years of European history were entirely fabricated, and that we may actually be living in the year 1726.