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TIL TJ Maxx was originally a subsidiary of the now defunct Zayre Department store chain.

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b9BrE TIL humans are the best long distance runners on the planet
d7VE TIL that the Times said in 2013 that it does not publish letters from climate change deniers: “Saying ‘there’s no sign humans have caused climate change’ is not stating an opinion, it’s asserting a factual inaccuracy’ that doesn’t belong in our pages.”
9YB57 TIL Mitch Hedberg was the Jimmy John's voiceover guy in 2005
R7Nv7 TIL it's very likely that military-style flails never existed. They are never described in medieval literature or chronicles. The original inventors were not weaponsmiths but illustrators. The smiths who made them from the 16th Century onward were just copying an idea rather than a thing.
MQaB TIL Jimmy “The Rent is Too Damn High” McMillan climbed the Brooklyn Bridge and refused to come down from it unless television stations broadcasted his message.