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TIL that WinCo Foods Inc., a popular chain of supermarket stores on the US West Coast, is majority-owned by its employees.

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X0J88 TIL Yang Liwei, China's first man in space, heard a mysterious knocking in space but it did not come from outside nor inside the spaceship. He has even tried - but failed - to recreate the sound so that experts could help him identify it
Brm8d TIL that Lone Star ticks can give you meat allergy.
leb5 TIL Vin Diesel helped produce and finance Riddick (2013) and even put up his house as collateral to get it made. “If we didn’t finish the film, I would be homeless.”
4XvMb TIL That archaeologists in Egypt discovered a 3,000-year-old prosthetic big toe fitted to the remains of a noble woman. Made from leather and wood, it was refitted several times to exactly match the woman’s foot.
095 TIL there is a Doctor in Nashville who has developed a way to cure the blind using tissue from an adult donor, and an amniotic membrane transplant with tissue from the amniotic sac.