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Today I learned crazy vocabulary from this young kid

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R76al TIL Goldstone Books in South Wales once received so many used copies of 50 Shades of Grey that they had to ask people to stop handing them in. Employees even created a fort out of their hundreds of surplus copies.
brbp TIL that as their senior prank, a group of 90 students walked (between two buildings) across the same street continuously for 15 minutes, using an underground tunnel that connected the two buildings. They continue long enough to cause a traffic jam, and the line of cars extended far down the road.
QJgKE TIL fed up by people frequently urinating against houses, a community in Hamburg's red light district started painting walls with water repellent paint so if someone urinate against the wall, their pee would splash off the surface to their shoes.
GYJ9N TIL it was considered impossible to run a mile in under 4 minutes until 1954, when Bannister ran the mile in under 4 minutes in the first time in human history
p8Bk4 TIL that at the onset of the Korean War, the US Army was so unprepared it had to salvage tanks from WWII battlefields and even from display pedestals in Fort Knox to equip its forces.