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TIL Woolworth’s (huge department store until the 1980’s) did not go out of business completely… it just got smaller and changed its name to Foot Locker

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PY6WG TIL the books in the show ‘Castle’ do actually exist. They were written by the screenwriter Tom Straw under the name ‘Richard Castle’. Nathan Fillion, who played Richard Castle in the show, attended the book signings as the face of the author.
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XE8e6 TIL of 16th century Korean Admiral Yi Sun-Sin. Although having no prior naval experience, he was undefeated at sea and never lost a single ship. In his most famous battle he commanded 13 ships against the Japanese's 330 and won, all whilst recovering from having been recently tortured.
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