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TIL Salvation Army and Goodwill have almost singlehandedly crippled Africa’s clothing industry

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rGAx TIL David Letterman’s favorite musical performance on his show was by “The Heavy”. They performed “What makes a good man”. It was so good, Dave asked for an unplanned encore, then joined in during the chorus.
M7O18 TIL about Marion Stokes a Philadelphia woman who compulsively recorded and stored over 40,000 VHS tapes of news broadcasts between 1979 and 2012
o4L8 TIL: Doritos and Coca-Cola are scientifically designed to taste alluring, while at the same time STOPS the brain from giving the signal to stop over eating
P6gO TIL: When identical twin, basketball players Brook and Robin Lopez were both playing for NY-based teams, they considered living together. They then decided against it because their cats didn’t get along.
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