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TIL that Trader Joes employees will open and let you sample anything in their store if asked, including alcoholic beverages if allowed by law…

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d8LkQ TIL: The first German service man killed in WW2 was killed by a Japanese man in China.
PYKyO TIL Hawaiian King Kamehameha IV was shocked when in America, a train conductor mistook him for the servant: "The first time that I have ever received such treatment, not in England or France or anywhere else... In England an African can pay his fare and sit alongside Queen Victoria."
d8yoK TIL that a mock-Nazi invasion was staged in Winnipeg in 1942 in order to encourage Manitobians to invest in victory bonds. The "invasion" included the internment of prominent politicians, the imposition of Nazi rule, and a parade.
wLXKE TIL there is a "forest" covering over 100 acres consisting of over 40,000 trunks of a single tree. The trunks are all connected to the same root system and collectively weigh 6000 metric tons. The root system is an estimated 80,000 years old, though each trunk only lives about 130 years.
gMaQW TIL about the Ebionite Christianity, a very old old belief (dates back to 180 CE) that Jesus was a human prophet who was born normally and had brothers, it was deemed heretical in Nicaea Council