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TIL Nearly 70% of icelanders has costco membership and there's only one costco in the country

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grwny TIL the official name for a hashtag is "octothorpe".
lonW1 TIL in 1976, a mule named Lord Fauntleroy beat 200 horses in the 3,500-mile Great American Horse Race. Along the way, Norton, the mule’s rider, would often stop to help other riders, beat everyone by 10 hours, and retired with the $25,000 prize while calling himself the “Great American Horseman.”
6XR8 TIL 71 people died in a fire on January 13, 1939. In Australia it’s what we remember as ‘Black Friday’.
xBmb TIL You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day of the year.
AEPl TIL When electricity was installed in the White House, President Benjamin Harrison and his wife, Caroline, were scared to use the light switches for fear of getting shocked