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TIL, there are almost 80 H-E-B stores in Mexico!
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TIL that RMS Olympic offered to take on survivors of RMS Titanic, however the captain of Carpathia refused, claiming that the survivors would be traumatised if they were asked to board Titanic’s identical twin
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TIL a Fata Morgana is a complex form of superior mirage visible in a narrow band right above the horizon
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TIL TV mystery series ‘Columbo’ was so popular in Romania that when the show was cancelled the Romanian gov’t feared riots, so they had the US State Dept. ask Peter Falk to record a video message to the Romanian people, which he did by reading it phonetically into the camera
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TIL pineapples grow in bushes, not on trees.
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TIL that in WWII, an Australian soldier removed his own appendix in the middle of a Philippine jungle in 1944, without any anaesthetic and with only the use of a mirror and an ordinary knife. The operation took 4 and a half hours and he stitched himself up with jungle fibre.