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

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0w6ej TIL: washing your hands with hand sanitizer in hospitals is contributing to the development of deadly superbugs (bacteria)
5P8p TIL prior to 1868, eating meat from four legged animals had been prohibited in Japan for more than a thousand years.
VBNrQ TIL China currently operates 69% of all High Speed Rail in existence, stretching 4600km from the far west of the country (Kashgar Prefecture) to its eastern-most city (Fuyuan). The next-highest is Spain, with only 6%.
6ELK7 TIL that The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long.
grQXy TIL that a drug used to treat rare genetic disorders in humans can also kill malaria mosquitoes simply by contact, disrupting their metabolism after a blood meal, even in insecticide-resistant strains