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TIL: Since 1995, 7-Eleven has provided more than 6 million coupons to police departments across the country to “ticket” young people “caught in random acts of kindness” dubbed Operation Chill.

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groOb TIL Andrew Jackson had a parrot who loved to curse
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dvd8 TIL Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically capable of holding 455 exabytes – enough for all the data held by Google, Facebook and every other major tech company, with room to spare