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TIL the UK equivalent of the dollar store is called "Poundland".

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9YJeD TIL there are Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner rules, such as "No outside force can harm the Coyote", "The Road Runner must stay on the road", and "No dialog ever, except beep-beep"
VRkm TIL Bruce Banner was renamed to David Banner in the 1978 TV-series The Incredible Hulk because CBS thought Bruce sounded too gay.
4kV0J TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust
4Xv6 TIL South African residents can legally attach small flamethrowers to cars to repel carjackers
7rQJb TIL about the Holomodor, a man-made famine in 1930s Ukraine that killed up to 12 million ethnic Ukrainians. Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement.