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TIL that during a hurricane and its aftermath the two most purchased items in Wal-Mart are beer and strawberry pop tarts.

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M7JAa Today I learned that Avril Lavigne played hockey in a boys' league when she was in high school, and won two MVP awards.
ZpL7D TIL In 2018 a woman in South Africa was discovered alive inside her coffin at her own funeral – hours after being declared dead by paramedics.
EgJKP TIL Back to the Future composer Alan Silvestri has only been nominated for an Oscar twice in his 52 year film career. Neither nomination was for Back to the Future
8e81b TIL about Nahwa, a village in the UAE that is an enclave within a territory of Oman that is itself an enclave within the UAE. Such a territory is called a "counter-enclave".
7rxnr TIL The Battle of Athens (sometimes called the McMinn County War) was a rebellion led by citizens in Athens and Etowah, Tennessee, United States, against the local government in August 1946