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TIL there are Target stores in Australia with the exact same logo, name, and branding that have no affiliation with the actual Minneapolis-based retailer all because Target didn’t trademark their name in Australia.

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OogO7 TIL there is an island in Ethiopia where Christian Ethiopians claim to have kept the Ark of Covenant for thousands of years. It is watched over by a single man with no name known as the "Guardian" and no woman are allowed on the island for fear of "stirring the passions" of the virgins on the island
rndy TIL that near the 1940s it was popular to build DIY radios called “crystal sets.” It needed no other power source but that received solely from the power of radio waves received by a wire antenna.
J0kl TIL Chris Brown didn’t just punch Rihanna - he repeatedly beat her, causing her to bleed from her mouth, shoved her against a car window, bit her hand and choked her within an inch of her life.
0w0Mp TIL Two-Thirds of Soviet Men Born in 1923 Didn’t Survive the War
D5GY TIL A man claimed to have travelled to an alternate dimension where The Beatles never broke up and brought back a mix tape of songs that nobody had ever heard before