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TIL that in 2000, Walmart was sued 4,851 times - about once every 2 hours

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P1MbJ TIL airline ticket pricing is so convoluted, it's mathematically impossible to create an algorithm to select the best price for a flight (the problem is undecidable)
8aj8G TIL that in the original "Wayne's World" script, the T-1000 simply told Wayne "you're speeding". The line was changed at the last second when a producer's son said it wasn't funny.
W7478 TIL In 1373, the pope sent two papal delegates to serve the Lord of Milan, Bernabò Visconti, his excommunication papers. Bernabò, infuriated, placed the two papal delegates under arrest and refused their release until they had eaten the parchment, seal, and silken cord which they had served him.
m1oXE TIL the “Great Oil Sniffer Hoax” fooled French state oil company Elf Aquitaine in the 1970s into spending over $150 million on planes that supposedly detected underground oil from the air, before the technology was exposed as a fraud.
7rBwO TIL that Theodosia Burr Alston, daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, disappeared mysteriously at sea in 1812. At age 29 she sailed from Georgetown, South Carolina, aboard the Patriot. The ship and everyone on board was never seen again.