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TIL The “E” in Chuck E. Cheese stands for Entertainment. Charles Entertainment Cheese.

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Bywd TIL when JAL Flight 2 landed in San Francisco Bay short of the runway, captain Kohei Asoh told investigators, “As you Americans say, I fucked up.” Today the “Asoh defense” is hailed by corporate strategists as one of the most effective public relations strategies.
pBRO TIL that camels don’t store water in their humps. They store fat, and tapping those reserves actually causes a net loss of hydration. They can survive for so long in the desert because of their ovular blood cells, relatively dry urine and feces, and nostrils that recycle water vapor
vrg4 TIL Stalin’s granddaughter lives in Portland, Oregon, where she sells antiques, vintage clothes, and scented candles.
d8keZ TIL about the Bangladesh genocide of 1971. This was the largest genocide since the Holocaust, with upwards of 3,000,000 people dying.
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