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TIL: A Petersburg VA home is built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

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VMjD0 TIL: GB Glace (Unilever's heart ice cream company) has a different name in many different countries.
LQNMd TIL the ancient Nazca got water in the middle of the desert through an engineered series of 46 aqueducts running 12 km underground. They were built around 200-500 AD, and 32 of them are still used by local farmers today
NX47E TIL as of March 2022, the most sampled hip hop track (a hip hop song sampled by another hip hop song) of all time is “La Di Da Di” (1985) by Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick. It's been sampled over 1000 times by such artists as Naughty by Nature, The Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg, Mos Def.
XBo8 TIL: that Costco takes a loss of $40 million every year on their rotisserie chickens. By offering cheap hot-and-ready foods, as well as taking a loss on everyday items like milk, Costco exponentially increases foot traffic.
kOKO4 TIL That 523 mostly one of a kind, lost silent films from around the gold rush era, were found buried beneath the permafrost, they were used to fill in a swimming pool and make a skating rink in the small town of Dawson City Yukon