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TIL Costco purposefully designed their store without signs to force people to wander through all the aisles and find things to buy.

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BgvBD TIL I learned the CIA directly influences the production of movies and Hollywood since 1946
OGng4 TIL that the 1983 Dodge Caravan was the first car with built in cup holders
Wk7kL TIL the Creole pig of Haiti was deliberately exterminated in the 1980s to stop an outbreak of African swine fever. Peasants were provided with imported pigs from the U.S. as compensation, but this caused many of them to lose money as the American pigs were much more expensive to maintain.
XEnjj TIL about a badass WWII US black war hero, combat medic that save lives of hundreds of men, Cpl. Waverly Woodson. Was nominated for DSC and Medal of Honor, but never had because no Black American received a MoH for WWII and later his file was "lost".
d8DPj TIL there was a funded study on impact of piracy on sales which results were withheld by EU presumably due to finding no negative impact