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TIL that Target has a customer tracking and marketing algorithm / database so accurate it discovered a teen pregnancy.

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XNvj TIL that watching Home Alone is a national tradition in Poland at Christmastime. When the network owning the rights opted not to show it in 2010, there were national protests. Over 10% of the population of Poland will watch this broadcast live annually.
xEN0 TIL the guy that punched Snooki, joined the Army, because he couldn’t get a job.
9Y1VX TIL "University of Georgia researchers & colleagues from other universities have developed a jelly-like substance that may help catastrophic breaks knit together. Stem cells are the key ingredient in what the scientists call 'bone putty'" aka "Fracture Putty".
gMZoW TIL in 2011, an Australian beer company gave people the option to pay whatever they wanted for a glass of beer from a certain keg. The kegs - called ‘The Karma Keg’ ended up raising at least 35% more than an average keg would make.
lgy7 TIL a baby boy was born via caesarean to a 15-year-old girl, who happened to have a vulva but no vagina, 278 days after she sustained abdominal wounds in a knife fight after giving oral sex, during which time spermatozoa gained access to her reproductive organs via the injured gastrointestinal tract