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

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9wQ8Q TIL: In Operation Paul Bunyan, the United States sent 813 infantry, 27 helicopters, 1 armor to cut down a tree after 2 US soldiers were murdered with hatchets by the North Korean army for attempting to cut said tree.
E1Xrw TIL China accounts for more than 60% of religiously unaffiliated people in the world
vPPWD TIL Our Sun can make a total of 80 different elements: helium and then everything from carbon through polonium, but nothing heavier. For that, you need a supernova or a neutron star collision. Of all the types of naturally occurring elements here on Earth, the Sun can make about 90% of them.
GYXG TIL Walt Disney gave his housekeeper Disney stocks every year for the holidays. She died a multi-millionaire.
OopE4 TIL that actor Humphrey Bogart was a veteran of World War I, serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Leviathan. Too old to reenlist in the Navy during World War II, he volunteered for the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve.