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TIL 15 human feet wearing shoes have washed up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest since 2007.

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nenXW TIL that Wal-Mart is the 3rd largest employer in the world, behind only China’s People’s Liberation Army, and The United States’ Department of Defense
8D5G TIL There’s a horse named Potoooooooo because according to legend, the stable boy misheard his name “Potato” as “Pot-8-o”, and the stable master was like “eh”
LkP4r TIL Groundwater wells in old times were dug by pick and shovel until the digger couldn't bail anymore
69KgJ TIL that Leonard Nimoy was the narrator of Seaman, a 2000 Sega Dreamcast virtual pet simulator that had you use a microphone to converse with a moody, sarcastic man-fish, developed by Yutaka Saito (known for The Tower).
bZO7 TIL a 1970s Canadian science experiment made drugs freely available to both caged rats and colony rats: The rats in cages developed drug habits. The rats in normal ‘society’ refused them.