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TIL that 7-Eleven has 21,743 stores in Japan, with 2,914 in Tokyo alone (as of 2025)

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wbxM TIL that a ‘party truck’ owned by Johnny Cash started a brush fire that “roasted, into near extinction, 49 of the 53 endangered California condors”, the largest bird in North America, from their last habitat. When brought to court, Cash said “I don’t care about your damn yellow buzzards.”
9Y7BD TIL that in 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope on the emptiest part of the sky they could find and left it for 10 days, letting light accumulate until incredibly faint objects could be detected. It resulted in an image of about 3000 galaxies. This is the Hubble Deep Field.
oODL TIL a man broke out of jail because he was fed up with the loud rap music being played ‘day and night’ on his wing
kbvB TIL that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory had trouble castin the Oompa Loompas because since it was filmed in Germany the nazi regime had exterminated most dwarfs.
PYxbZ TIL A 170-person Swiss infantry unit once got lost during training exercises and inadvertently crossed 1.5km into Liechtenstein. The Swiss army later informed Liechtenstein of the incursion and offered official apologies, to which a ministry spokesperson responded, "No problem, these things happen."