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TIL that 1 Billion dollars of gift cards go unused every year.

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7xpZ TIL the 1998 Jonesboro Middle School shooters who killed 5 and injured 10 were released at the age of 21 and immediately attempted to acquire firearms
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8e4wX TIL that 706 (now north Georgia) and 905 (now outside Toronto) were area codes for Mexico until 1991.
l7GbK TIL that Sichuan peppercorns(timur in Nepal) was banned for import into the US from 1968 to 2005 because they were found to be carrying citrus canker
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