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TIL JC Penney was founded as a frontier store in Wyoming

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9BXX TIL that Wall St. tried to overthrow FDR
GvjG TIL Johnny Weissmuller, famous actor for playing Tarzan, was in Cuba during the Revolution. While playing a round of golf he was surrounded by rebels. He let out his trademark yell. Recognizing it, the rebels led him to safety.
G97g TIL High-ranking Viking funerals involved getting a slave girl drunk, screwed by numerous men, restrained, strangled, then stabbed through the ribs before being burned with the corpse.
Borr TIL Vermont, Hawaii, Alaska, and Maine have all banned billboards.
16KVd TIL that Elizabeth Taylor was deliberately late to her own funeral