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TIL there's no legit professional wrestling (at least in the US)

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0w4kM TIL Vans' original store didn't have any shoes for sale when it opened in 1966. Still, 12 people ordered shoes based on the samples on display, but when they returned to get their shoes, the owners couldn't make change. The owners said to take the shoes and return later to pay. All 12 customers did.
N7MLE TIL that Nintendo had developed a knitting machine add-on for the NES that was never released.
VMM7B TIL that there is an affliction called Word Salad, wherein a person speaking spontaneously breaks into unintelligible gibberish without realizing it is occurring
VbOp TIL There is a Bunyan tree that has been officially under-arrest (and chained) for over 100 years
m1Wxo TIL that Quipu, intricate arrays of knotted cords, were used by Andean cultures to record data without a written language.