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TIL that when a hurricane is approaching, Walmart sales of Strawberry flavoured Pop-Tarts increase by over over 7x.

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7rMLL TIL Keurig K-Cups are non-recyclable, non-biodegradable, and generate a ton of plastic waste. They are so environmentally unfriendly that its own inventor has said: “I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.”
WkL0d TIL the growing German city of Wuppertal needed a railway, but had nowhere to put it. A regular monorail was deemed unsuitable, and an experimental "Floating Monorail" system was selected and constructed through the city and above the river, and remains in popular use today after over 115 years.
rRYkM TIL for the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable...until a fungus figured out how to rot it
7r7dP TIL : Bob Marley’s dad was white
EG9x TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman guest starred in an episode of kid’s cartoon ‘Arthur’, playing a famous theater director called William Fillmore Toffman.