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TIL that Amazon named a building after its first customer who spent $27

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lro7 TIL a noted fetish artist lived with “Spider-Man” co-creator Steve Ditko, and once said “I think I added the business about the webs coming out of his hands.”
kOMoW TIL in the UK, A study for disappearances looked at 96 fatal cases, 53% of all male disappearances occur in the months December January and February, with 22% of those cases occurring in December between Christmas and new years eve. And 89% of bodies are found in canals, rivers, lakes or harbours.
vELr TIL than in the 1950s, just over one in ten 14-16 year olds agreed with the statement “I am an important person.” By the late 1980s, that number had risen to 80 per cent.
0wmdA TIL during the 1993 Yukon Quest sled dog race, musher Jeff Mann killed a moose with an axe after it attacked him and his dog team.
R79lQ TIL despite newly-formed states somewhat offsetting those seceded during the US Civil War, total electoral votes Abraham Lincoln needed to win re-election shrank from 152 (out of 303) to to 118 (out of 234).