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TIL Costco sells approximately 100 million hot dogs a year in their food court – over four times the number sold in all Major League Baseball stadiums combined.

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5rx9 TIL: Woodrow Wilson’s vice president, Thomas Marshall, was known for his sense of humor. One of his favorite jokes was about a woman with two sons, one of whom went to sea and one of whom was elected vice president; neither was ever heard of again.
m1ZRR TIL that the Catholic Church forbade people with epilepsy from becoming ordained as priests, all the way until the mid-1980s, due to superstition about evil influences
GAV07 TIL that, according to a study, we spend a total of 3.5 months of our lives hitting the snooze button and 57% of Americans are snoozer, and even more in UK, with 70% of Brits are snoozer
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