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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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Wkv0B TIL Irish people originally had black hair. Red hair genes come from Vikings who settled in the 8th to 11th Centuries.
lonLA TIL A man in India, Dashrath Manjhi carved a mountain for 22 yrs using a chisel and hammer and shortened the distance from 55km to 15km after his wife died in on the way to doctor !
9YnpG TIL that Henry Starr claimed to hold the record for most bank robberies in America. He wrote & starred in a movie about his robberies, "A Debtor to the Law," in 1919. Two years later he was shot & killed robbing a bank in Arkansas.