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TIL : A man donned Walmart uniform and walked into Walmart pretending to be an employee. There he stole four flat screen TVs and left through the emergency exit without anyone suspecting.

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9Yg1G TIL The Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust is a grain reserve of commodities and cash. In 2008 the USDA sold the remaining stocks into an all cash reserve. Since it no longer holds commodities, it can respond to local food crises outside the US, but not to a global one that affects the USA itself.
M7NK TIL that the original Mortal Kombat game was conceived as a fighting game based on Jean-Claude Van Damme. The creators wanted him to star in it, but he had a prior deal with the Sega Genesis platform. The creators then made the character Johnny Cage based on JCVD’s appearance in the movie Bloodsport
X68R TIL the only American not on Earth during 9/11 [Frank L. Culberston] recorded the event from the ISS. He later learned that the pilot of the plane that struck The Pentagon was a classmate of his from the US Naval Academy [Charles Burlingame].
711M TIL: Europe banned ISPs from charging for faster network access in April - in Slovenia and Holland it is already national law.
bKR4 TIL that in Blade Runner(1982) The CEO of the Tyrell Corporation was mentor to Peter Weyland, the CEO of the Weyland Corporation from the Alien franchise.