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TIL There is a national (US) grocery Best Bagger competition since 1987

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lZ11 TIL teenagers Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta spent 2 years recreating the entire movie “Toy Story” shot-for-shot using stop-motion and marionette puppetry. The project required making two rooms in Pauley’s parent’s house into the ‘Toy Story’ set and repurposing toys from Goodwill. [Video in link]
xD57 TIL H. Jon Benjamin (voice of Archer and Bob from Bob’s Burgers) has an entire jazz album where he plays piano, despite not knowing how to actually play piano.
pM4A TIL there is a small, one-story building in Wilmington, Delaware which serves as the official address of nearly 300,000 companies. Up to 200,000 are believed to be shell companies.
OG1R TIL the statistic that 90% of guns seized in Mexico originated in the US is a myth. Only 12% are actually traced back to the US.
Y7L5G TIL some sharks lay spiral shark eggs and others lay 'mermaid purses'. Some sharks are oviparous (lay eggs), some are viviparous (give birth to living young) and other sharks are ovoviviparous (the eggs hatch inside the mother before the young are born alive)