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TIL about a guy who disappeared in to the woods for 27 years and survived by committing about 1000 burglaries

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VMnNQ TIL That Wal-Mart has it’s own ‘radio station’ that plays the same music across every store in the country, complete with DJs, shoutouts, and the like.
awLpJ TIL English Muffins are designed to be split with a fork, not a knife
4XKNR TIL that the Oxford English Dictionary has included the informal use of the word "literally" in its official definition since 2011, and that use of the word "literally" to mean "figuratively" has been documented as far back as 250 years.
5YmZR TIL On September 11, 1857, Mormons disguised themselves as Native Americans and attacked a wagon train. Then Mormon leaders, under a flag of truce, tricked the settlers into leaving their defenses; They then slaughtered all 120+ defenseless men, women, and children.
D1RXJ TIL there is a German island in the North Sea (Föhr) whose residents love the Manhattan cocktail - a relic of mass emigration to America in the late 1800s/early 1900s of island residents.