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

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kO5Od TIL that the cartoon/comic strip staples of censoring swear words with *!?#& symbols (grawlixes), using starbursts or circles above a character's head to denote drunkenness (squeans), and wavy rising lines to indicate steam or heat (indotherms) were all invented by one cartoonist: Mort Walker
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X0YNj TIL a man named Dennis Hope exploited a loophole in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and claimed ownership of the Moon and has since sold plots of it to over 6 million people, including celebrities and former presidents.
W7bw4 TIL that famous authors C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on the same exact day that JFK was assassinated and there is a fiction novel about all three of them meeting in purgatory.