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TIL, there are almost 80 H-E-B stores in Mexico!

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1aQD4 TIL that professional cyclists pee while cycling to save time, but are fined if it is in front of spectators or cameras.
e0xRk TIL the term "ass clown" was coined by, and has become a part of our lexicon, courtesy of the movie Office Space
5VOJB TIL twice every day at the same time almost 900 weather balloons are released across the world that collect the data used for forecasting the weather.
mLVy TIL some cable networks (like TBS and TNT) imperceptibly speed up reruns of shows (like Seinfeld) so they can fit in more ads. Speeding up the show by just 7.5% allows them to shave off almost two minutes off the broadcast.
p84yb TIL Allee Willis was originally bothered by the 'ba-dee-ya' lyric in song 'September'. "I just said, 'What the fuck does 'ba-dee-ya' mean?' And [White] said, 'Who the fuck cares?' I learned my greatest lesson ever in songwriting from him, which was never let the lyric get in the way of the groove."