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TIL self checkouts can recognise produce items and they give you a list to choose from based on what they ‘see’

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a1J TIL that after Selena’s slaying, gang members in Texas attempted to raise $500,000 for the bond set on Yolanda Saldivar, her killer, so that they could murder her once she was released.
Y7x6d TIL about the surgical procedure hymenoplasty, which restores or repairs the hymen. It’s most often used by women living in cultures where it’s existence or nonexistence can be the difference between shaming, ostracism and in some cases death
oRNy8 TIL During World War I, the Germans bombed New York City by setting off explosives at an munitions plant killing 3 people and permanently damaging the torch on the Statue of Liberty. It helped draw the USA into World War I similar to the Pearl Harbor attack during World War II.
Me4nW TIL John Wilkes Booth's father was named Junius Brutus Booth, after the main conspirator in the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar
lop1V TIL that small icebergs are called “bergy bits”