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TIL: There are still 12 Blockbuster video stores, and 7 of them are in Alaska

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4v16 TIL for Yao Ming’s first game in Miami in 2002, the Heat gave out 8,000 fortune cookies as a promotion for the game. Yao did not take offense because he had never seen a fortune cookie in China and assumed it was an American invention.
LeGr TIL French gamer hunted down and stabbed a guy who killed him 6 months ago with knife in counter strike.
Y7XGr TIL in 1974 Whitey Bulger and an accomplice set fire to an elementary school to intimidate a judge that mandated a plan to desegregate schools in Boston by busing. A year later he threw a Molotov cocktail into JFK's birthplace in retaliation of Sen. Ted Kennedy supporting Boston school desegregating
9wrxG TIL about Sergeant Siwash. A duck in the US Marine Corps. During WWII known as The Devil Duck
LoB9 TIL, Australia has an owl so large it hunts and eats possums, called the Powerful Owl.