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TIL that Dollar Stores are more profitable than Target and Walmart by exploiting customer's math skills and inability to buy in bulk.

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x6JM7 TIL that "Lenna", cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy depicting Lena Forsén, is a standard test image used in the field of digital image processing
R7pol TIL iodine was added to salt in 1924 to combat goiters, but the iodization also resulted in notable increases in intelligence
N79VJ TIL that the Humane Slaughter Act, a United States federal law supposedly designed to reduce animal suffering during slaughter, does not mention chickens at all and poultry plants are exempt from following it.
wlRP TIL it’s possible for circumcised males to non-surgically restore their foreskin by tugging on it, causing the body to generate new skin cells
v94L TIL during WW2 Nazi German forces designed explosive laden chocolate bars for Winston Churchill knowing his weakness for them, believing that it’d be an easy way to kill him. They also made explosive laden coal pieces, thermos flasks and mess tins among many others. An alert MI5 foiled these plans.