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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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epDZb TIL exactly what it means to be “Hanged, drawn and quartered”: “…fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).”
vyjR TIL the CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure had a salary of $459,406 in 2010.
AQAa TIL that the first black man to play in Major League Baseball was Moses Fleetwood Walker (1856-1924), not Jackie Robinson.
D1ODg TIL in 1998 the average monetary loss of a 7-Eleven robbery was just $37.
R7WM9 TIL that The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) changed its name to World Taekwondo because of the "negative connotations" associated with its initials. The organisation had used the previous name since it was established in 1973.