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TIL that Trader Joe’s is owned by the Aldi Group.

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x6X0D TIL that in 1943 Herman the Cat was officially hired by the United States Coast Guard as an “Expert Mouser” to essentially control or eradicate the rodent population aboard ships.
OalX TIL the word hexadecimal should really be sexadecimal (proper latin) or hexadecadic (proper greek) but hexadecimal was used so that computer hackers wouldn’t abbreviate it as “sex”.
v1Qvr TIL Cats have contributed to the extinction of 60+ species
0XKy TIL Michael Birch, the founder of Bebo, sold Bebo to AOL for $850 million in 2008 only to later buy it back for only $1 million in 2013.
a8v7M TIL that an SLR used a prism that utilizes the "true reflection" quality that two mirrors set at a 90-degree angle viewed from 45 degrees demonstrates in order to provide a true image, despite being reflected 3 times.