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TIL Abercrombie & Fitch offered the cast of Jersey Shore "substantial payment" to stop wearing their brand

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ANO97 TIL that Saudi Arabia won the World Cup for the mentally disabled 4x in a row
Z9vp TIL That there was a violent street gang in 1980’s NYC called The Decepticons, and their leader called himself Megatron.
0dgwM TIL the North Pole has no time zone assigned to it so any time can be used as the local time
v1Va4 TIL of Alexandra David-Néel, an explorer who snuck into Tibet in the 1920s to learn about Buddhism when it was closed to outsiders. She lived until 101 and her writings influenced Jack Kerouac amongst others.
X0jrr TIL that the Free File Alliance is a group of for-profit tax prep companies committed to stopping the IRS from creating a free service providing tax prep and filing.