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TIL a horde of Black Friday shoppers crushed a Walmart employee to death as they smashed through the front doors. Cops trying to perform CPR were also trampled on by the crowd hunting steep discounts.

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Y7PBG TIL Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish frontman/country artist) released a solo R&B album in 2002.
LklAV TIL "Prime minister" was originally used as an unofficial derogatory term for an MP who had improperly accumulated too much power in parliament.
OGEb7 TIL that The Apollo 11 astronauts couldn’t get life insurance before their mission, so they came up with a brilliant hack: they signed hundreds of autographs. These "insurance autographs" were given to their families, who could sell them if the mission ended in tragedy.
X0XDk TIL Low-background steel is steel produced prior to the detonation of the nuclear bombs. Typically sourced from old shipwrecks, it is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout
16pWW TIL that there's a museum in Japan that's dedicated to rocks that look like human faces!