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TIL Costco regularly relocates necessities like toiletries and light bulbs so the customer has to search for them. This forces shoppers to explore new areas of the store.

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4Xko TIL the “Creepy Progeria Guy” From Die Antwoord’s “Enter the Ninja” died last year. He was the oldest living sufferer of Progeria.
l7KOG TIL In 1997, during the Critérium International race, a horse jumped over a fence to join the peloton, it passed them and left the race just 20 km away from the finish line
gMBW9 TIL there is an elite private prep school in NYC called the Horace Mann school, named after the 19th Century American educational reformer Horace Mann, who advocated for quality public education. Tuition is more than $52,000/year
9wdpB TIL that the Star Spangled Banner, written after a British naval bombardment, is to the tune of a British drinking song.
pY5kA TIL that there are multiple species of cotton. The most common species today came from Central America, Mexico, and the Carribean, with the other three commercially grown species from are from South America; South Asia; and Africa and Arabia. There are even Australian species of wild cotton.