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TIL: Spirit Halloween stores are owned by Spencers
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TIL three Marlboro men – Wayne McLaren , David McLean and Dick Hammer – died of lung cancer.
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TIL that Canadian sports network rivals TSN and SportsNet were once based at the same office complex, with only a parking lot separating the two. Workers would refer to leaving one channel for the other as “crossing the lot”
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TIL In the 1950s, U.S. poultry firms dumped turkey tails into Samoa markets. Filled with oil used to preen itself, turkey tails are 75% fat and are frequently washed down with a cold Budweiser. Due to its ties to the obesity epidemic, Samoan officials banned turkey tail imports in 2007.
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TIL British and American commanders ensured that the liberation of Paris on 25 August 1944 was seen as a “whites only” victory. They insisted that all black soldiers be taken out and replaced by white ones from other units.
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TIL the James Webb Space Telescope captured an eruption of water vapor that punched 6K miles (9.5K km) out into space from a geyser on the Saturn moon Enceladus. The largest spray of water ever seen in space gave unprecedented insight into how the moon's geysers supply material to Saturn's icy rings