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TIL that there are annual pilgrimages to Central Oregon, USA to visit the last Blockbuster video store in the world.

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j68dX TIL for the first 2 years after Marla Gibbs got cast on The Jeffersons, she kept her job as a reservations agent at United Airlines. She would work at the CBS television studio during the day and then go to United Airlines, where she worked the night shift.
yQjAM TIL that there have been several cases of whale carcasses bursting due to a buildup of gas in the decomposition process. In Nov 1970, when a dead whale was about to burst, a team blew it up using dynamite in an attempt to dispose of it. The explosion threw whale flesh over 800 feet (240 M) away!
5br TIL: Chuck Norris has written an article for ammoland.com saying the Boy Scouts of America should continue to discriminate against gay people
j6RoR TIL about Neil Harbisson, the world's first officially-recognized cyborg. He has an antenna surgically implanted into his skull through which he can receive information in the form of vibrations.
4kPRg TIL that during the Cold War, the US military developed a “supergun” capable of firing projectiles into space to intercept enemy satellites