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TIL nearly 25% of Internet searches are related to porn

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7WGO TIL that in 2000, Walmart was sued 4,851 times - about once every 2 hours
J1glk TIL Alvin and the Chipmunks, were created by novelty singer Ross Bagdasarian, performing as Dave Seville. Asked to create another novelty song, he invented the Chipmunks, naming them after record company executives. All three were voiced by Bagdasarian, later his son, and have won 5 Grammys.
PRAn TIL about the Georgia Guidestones, a 238k pound monument in Georgia, by some people seen as “the American stonehenge”
noEY TIL that in 2004, a F-16 accidentally strafed a New Jersey school with cannon fire on a training mission.
awRMb TIL a man sued PepsiCo, alleging he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can. PepsiCo's defense won by proving that a mouse would dissolve inside the soda in the days after being put in the can.