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TIL that Circuit city's exectutives, when suggested to by a consultant, opened a used car retailer that didn't charge transaction fees. That company, CarMax, is currently the largest used car dealership in the United States with 173 locations.

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jNXKn TIL wolves were historically a major threat in Europe, responsible for thousands of recorded killings. It is thought that the abundance of corpses due to Plague may have altered their behavior, causing them to actively seek humans as prey up until the 1700s. Hence the trope of the man-eating wolf.
78yrr TIL - the 3DO port of Doom had its 2 largest screen sizes locked behind cheat codes to allow for compatibility with the 3DO's successor system, the Panasonic M2, which was eventually cancelled
KONpG TIL Kazuhiko Torishima, editor of Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball, only started working at Shueisha (publisher of Weekly Shōnen Jump) because he wanted to work on Japanese Playboy. Torishima was disapointed when Shueisha started sending him boxes of manga as he had never worked with manga before.
VMjv4 TIL the song "Blackbird" was inspired by the racial tensions in the US in 1968 as a symbolic way to support the efforts of the Civil Rights Movement. McCartney underlined also that “bird” is a British slang often used for “girl”, which would make “blackbird” become “black girl”.......Also, Bach....
p1WN TIL Switzerland banned nearly all forms of motor-racing after the tragic 1955 Le Mans disaster, where fragments of a crashed car flew in the stands, killing 83 spectators, the most deadly accident in motorsport history. Despite numerous attempts to lift it, the ban is still in place to this day.