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TIL Forever 21 puts “John 3:16” on their bags because their founders are Christian fundamentalists.

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GADYG TIL that it’s common for American sports teams to relocate to another city, as they’re often operated like businesses and not as part of local culture.
oXb7 TIL Belgrade has been razed to the ground 44 times.
e0Dn5 TIL John Babbacombe Lee was imprisoned (with weak evidence) for the murder of his employer in 1884 and was set to hang on February 21st, 1885. Though being carefully tested, the trapdoor of the gallows malfunctioned three times, resulting in John's freedom due to, "suspected divine intervention."
5D8Q TIL that Stevie Wonder is blind because he was born six weeks premature, which, along with the oxygen-rich atmosphere in the hospital incubator, resulted in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a condition in which the growth of the eyes is aborted and causes the retinas to detach
OGAd4 TIL: that there was a researched conspiracy theory that JFK was accidently killed by the Secret Service when the SS chase car behind was forced to break, causing the SS agent in the car to fumble forward and muzzle check the president, accidently killing him.