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TIL That Wal-Mart has it’s own ‘radio station’ that plays the same music across every store in the country, complete with DJs, shoutouts, and the like.

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yR4M TIL America’s obesity rate has gone from 13 percent (1965) to 36 percent (2010)
woxQ1 TIL about “Snotbot,” a drone used by scientists to fly through whale exhalation plumes to gather information about whale health and ecology, DNA, stress and pregnancy hormones, microbiomes, etc.
8b14 TIL: Henry III received a polar bear as a gift from King Haakon of Norway in 1252. The bear lived at the Tower of London and was given a long leash so it could swim in the river Thames and catch fish.
NKnE TIL there is a glacier called “Blood Falls” in Antarctica that regularly pours out red liquid, making it look like the ice is bleeding.
6EvNm TIL over 1000 toads exploded in Hamburg as a result of crows pecking out their livers: terrified toads puffed up to scare away their attackers but with a hole in their bellies & no liver, they swelled up to ~4x their normal size, their lungs burst and the rest of the organs shot straight out of them