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TIL of the Gruen transfer - the moment when you enter a shopping mall and forget why you’re there because of the intentionally confusing layout.

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OG7GX TIL that before Charles Fisk started the successful C.B. Fisk organ company, he had unknowingly built equipment Fat Man atomic bomb during World War II.
EEPV TIL that Honey Boo Boo’s mother has not actually spent a cent of the money made from her show and instead, is saving it to spend on honey’s and the rest of the children’s college funds.
WpeX TIL there are millions of chemical bombs lying in our oceans after being dumped there after the first and second world war, because authorities didn’t have a way to dispose of them properly.
Pd9e TIL The actor who flew “da choppa” away in the last scene of Predator – Kevin Peter Hall – also played the role of The Predator.
oOG8 TIL that a man in Africa single handedly stopped the desertification of his region by reviving ancient farming and irrigation techniques despite being ridiculed by his community.