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TIL CVS The company was founded in 1963 and stands for "Consumer Value Stores".

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9KED TIL that of the of the 139 members elected to the 1934 USSR Central Committee of the Communist Party at the 17th Congress, Stalin had 98 executed. Of 1,996 party members present, 1,108 were arrested, and about two thirds of those executed. Thus it was given the name “The Congress of the Condemned”.
JY5Rl TIL that Karl Marx's Great Great Grand-son is a sponsored professional freerunner.
8aGE8 TIL Tom Hanks refused to get paid for his roles in Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan, preferring to take percentages of the movies’ worldwide total gross instead. He got almost $60 million from Forrest Gump, and between $30 million and $40 million from Saving Private Ryan.
BgdQb TIL that French soldiers executed an estimated 300 African troops who demanded equal pay and better living conditions during WW2 under claims of mutiny in what became known as the "Thiaroye massacre"
50kr TIL that the opening “Sega” chant soundbite for the original Sonic The Hedgehog used one-eighth of the game’s total memory, meaning that it was larger than some entire zones.