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TIL Before a hurricane, Walmart will fill their stores with strawberry poptarts. This is a result from their data mining and finding stores sold 7x more strawberry poptarts before the storm.

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AXx7 TIL that Steve Irwin told his cameramen to keep rolling in case of an alligator attack, so that his last words would be “crikey” as he is going down the belly of the alligator.
Mn1B TIL There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice and it is rebuilt every year
NZyQ TIL that kellogg’s claim that their cereal “improves kids’ cognitive functions by nearly 20%” was based on a study where the control group was given no breakfast, and the improvement was 11%
nrOG TIL female black widow spiders rarely eat their partners after mating and much of the documented evidence for mate cannibalism has taken place in laboratory cages where the males could not escape.
QyZX TIL In many Nordic cities, parents leave their children unattended in buggies in town, for long periods of time, while they have coffee or go shopping.