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TIL that Target was the first to refer to themselves as “Tar-Jay” in a 1979 commercial.

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6Ee5Y TIL on October 13, 2016, a man high on LSD, Michael Orchard from Halfmoon, NY, drove through his neighbours' fence, broke their glass door and stole their dog, hallucinating that the neighbours' house was burning and he was saving the canine. He then peacefully handed the dog to police officers.
MeLJ7 TIL of Inverted Totalitarianism. Not found in a demagogue but in the faceless anonymity of the corporate state. It pays outward fealty to the facade of electoral politics, the Constitution, freedom of the press etc., but it has seized all of the mechanisms of power rendering the citizen impotent.
9wlED TIL: In the Palace of Westminster, the UK's parliamentary building, there are nearly 30 different bars. In the 1980s, an estimated 10 per cent of MPs were alcoholics.
4XN5J TIL that Crazy Rich Asians casting was widely criticized for not being ethnically Chinese enough, not being Ethnically Malaysian enough, and using a non-Singaporean version of English.
woPXE TIL there is a statue of Ronald Reagan in Budapest Hungary