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TIL Kmart USA is down to its final 10 stores!
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TIL in 1902 a man named Ludger Sylbaris survived a volcanic eruption that killed 30,000 people because he was drunk and arrested the night before. Held in a windowless cell he stopped the superheated shockwave from vaporizing the air inside by peeing on his clothes and stuffing them in the door slit
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TIL Christine Jorgensen, a transgender woman, was honored as “Woman of the Year” 62 years before Caitlyn Jenner was
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TIL the only two countries on the planet that make it illegal to pass a stopped and loading/unloading school bus are US and Canada
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TIL that butterflies remember their days as a caterpillar. Despite going into a completely liquified state during metamorphosis, the neurons for their brain stay arranged as such to allow for the memories to stay intact.
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TIL the centrepiece sequence of "Singin' in the Rain" was culled from a similar sequence (sans-dancing) in Buster Keaton's "The Cameraman".