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TIL In 2011, four Wal-Mart employees we fired for disarming a gunman caught shoplifting.

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16rR8 TIL that luffa / loofah are a vegetable that belong to the gourd family!
0nEp TIL the extinct California grizzly bear was, during its existence, the largest bear in the world - bigger than both the polar and Kodiak bears. The heaviest on record weighed 2350 lbs and was shot in the Santa Clarita Valley in 1876.
gr7My TIL cube watermelons were invented by a Japanese graphic designer Tomoyuki Ono in 1978. The melons are grown in boxes and take the shape of the container. They were intended to fit more compactly in fridges and their shape makes them easier to cut as they don't roll.
gMEVA TIL of the 'Merci Train'. 49 box cars sent from France to the US filled with personal items donated by the French people as a 'Thank You' for food & supplies donated to them following WW2. One car was delivered to each state, and many states still have theirs housed in local museums.
oB5oY TIL that the film Mask (1985) is actually based on the true story of Roy Lee "Rocky" Dennis, an American boy who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare sclerotic bone disorder occurring in approximately one in every 220 million births, with fewer than 20 recorded cases.