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TIL an electronics store chain that advertised stereos for “299 bananas” honored the television offer and lost over $10,000 when customers started showing up with loads of the fruit.

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nW5e7 TIL when future US President James Buchanan was a Senator, he bought his whiskey weekly in 10-gallon quantities from well-known whiskey merchant Jacob Baer in Washington, D.C. Buchanan considered Baer's whiskey to be "finer than the best Monongahela."
0Ddy TIL that in Japan, women use the euphemism ‘Sailor Moon is visiting’ for when they’re on their period. To capitalize on this, the creators of Sailor Moon released an officially-licensed range of character-themed menstrual pads.
X0JBX TIL that the "Nuclear Gandhi" bug in Civilization 1 that made the AI super aggressive was just an urban legend and has been confirmed to not exist in the game.
N7leQ TIL there’s at least one parasitic wasp species that preys on every known insect species
gk67 TIL The total combined mass of all termites in the world is more than the total combined mass of the human population.