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TIL That if Wal-Mart were a sovereign nation, it would be China’s fifth or sixth largest export market.

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0Kav TIL Airport runway numbers actually indicate direction on a compass
yQxRV TIL bats were considered birds until the 1700s. Also whales and manatees were thought to be fish.
oB7wK TIL that in 1959, Martin Luther King Jr. made an impromptu stop at the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation to meet with tribal leaders whom he was "fascinated" by. This visit would later lead Dr. King to speak out against the government's treatment, both past & present, of Native Americans.
LEg0 TIL rats cant vomit, at all.
E1nLP TIL of Mohamed Bzeek, a Libyan-born Muslim living in Azusa, California, a foster father who takes in only terminally ill children. Bzeek, who has been fostering such children since 1989, is the only foster parent in Los Angeles County who will do this.