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TIL that in the 70's and 80's, Walgreens also owned and operated a chain of restaurants called Wag's

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ly5G TIL that there’s a Japanese expression for the sudden urge to defecate when stepping into a bookstore, “the Mariko Aoki phenomenon”
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