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TIL that the top sales at Wal-Mart as a storm approaches are Pop-Tarts and beer.

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vPyPD TIL there are only 14 possible (Gregorian) Calendars but it takes 26 years to cycle through them. If you start with 9 different consecutive calendars it takes another 17 years to “collect” the other 5.
yQoAl TIL that the mysterious baroque painter Johannes Gumpp is known to have painted only one self portrait which also happens to be a triple self portrait in which he appears from behind painting his own face reflected in a mirror.
896Z TIL that the deepest artificial hole on Earth is the Kola Superdeep Borehole, in Russia. It is 12,262m deep, which is 1% of the distance from Earth’s center.
Ry0a TIL Harold Fairweather, age 96, is believed to be the oldest person to still have a living parent. His mother Violet Brown is 116 years old and her age is recognized by the Guinness Book of Records.
eYlE TIL of the Golden Gumboot, a competition between two Australian towns for the wettest town in Australia. The winning town each year is awarded a rubber boot.