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TIL the first scanned UPC was a pack of Juicy Fruit gum on June 26th, 1974.

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9Yl8G TIL of St. Maria Skobtsova, an ex-revolutionary, twice married, smoking nun that helped forge baptismal certificates for Parisian Jews; she was discovered by the Gestapo, and died at Ravensbruck on Holy Saturday, 1945.
gxnW TIL: Before the Terracotta army, when chinese emperors died all their servants were killed to aid them in the afterlife. Building the terracotta army spared emperor Qin from killing more than 8000 people.
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