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TIL Target secretly adjusts their online prices based on your location even when you are not shopping in store. Shopping in incognito mode shows the true prices. If added to your cart the correct/lower prices will remain after logging into your account, allowing you to pay to true price.

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9wlQD TIL that on Christmas Eve 1944, a group of lost and wounded US Soldiers and lost and tired German soldiers laid down their weapons and shared a meager holiday meal together. The story became the basis for the 2002 television movie "Silent Night."
woxWP TIL The first New Year’s Eve ball was dropped in Times Square in 1907. In response to a ban on fireworks implemented that year, an electrician built the ball as an alternative way to celebrate New Year’s Eve. He constructed a wood and iron ball that weighed 700 pounds and featured 100 light bulbs.
GA76G TIL A man named Laurence Vonderdell robbed a bank in Dorset, England, with a banana wrapped in an orange plastic bag that he pretended was a gun and escaped with £1,100 worth of £20 notes.
9YWpD TIL that when Guns 'N Roses broke down on their way to a gig in Seattle in 1985, they ate raw onions from a field at the side of the road, managed to hitch a ride to the club and, when afterwards the owner refused to pay them, they tried and failed to burn the club down.
xVjWo TIL the Chinese gov. has been sending seeds to space to promote plant mutations for various crops. Good mutations are used to improve crops back on earth. The method has produced giant eggplants, half-meter long cucumbers, and peppers with improved yields and reduced seeds.