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TIL Aldi Nord also owns the Trader Joe's grocery chain in the United States

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Eg8XW TIL: Cormac McCarthy's inspiration for The Road was when in El Paso, TX with his young son "McCarthy looked out the window late one night and imagined what the city might look like in fifty or one hundred years and saw: "fires up on the hill and everything being laid to waste"
bg4E TIL that the oxygenated fluid used in James Cameron’s “The Abyss” actually exists, and allows humans to breathe the liquid while completely submerged.
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XEXPE TIL Stevie Ray Vaughan's signature '59 Stratocaster, Number One, aka "The Wife" was originally owned by Christopher Cross who traded it to a local music store because he wanted a guitar with a "beefier" sound.
DQv4D TIL the U.S. became a net energy exporter in 2019 for the first time since 1958