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TIL the average Wal-Mart shopper is a white, 50-year-old female with an annual household income of $53,125

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JJnB TIL Raisa Gorbachev once told a British minister there were more than 300 ways to cook potatoes in the USSR. When he had doubts, she sent him a cookbook and a note: “My apologies for being somewhat inaccurate: in fact, there are five hundred, rather than three hundred, recipes to cook potatoes.”
rRKn0 TIL as a result of seeing the athrocities of forced collectivisation in the USSR, including famines and between 6 and 7 million deaths, Joseph Stalin's wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva committed suicide.
e0y0D TIL that scuttled WWI ships serve as a source of steel for high precision sensors
E1Zxx TIL in 2002, Kim Jong-il agreed to let Japanese abductees visit Japan. A few weeks later, the Japanese Government "restricted" the abductees from returning to North Korea.
d8Byj TIL a man was attacked for having a beard in 1830, then imprisoned for defending himself. He died in 1873, by which time beards were fashionable. His tombstone reads, "Persecuted for wearing the beard."