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TIL Ambercrombie burns its unsold clothes. They don’t donate them because it is a bad image for the company to have poor people wear them.

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ppMQ TIL the Bible’s story of Noah’s Ark is based on a 1st millennium Assyrian copy of a story known as the Epic of Gilgamesh. This story itself is over 4100 year old and is considered to be the earliest surviving great work of literature in human history.
9DQ7 TIL that from 1952 to 1956, billions of Kent Micronite cigarettes were sold with a filter made from asbestos. The new filter was marketed as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history.”
epdnb TIL of the 1955 Le Mans disaster which killed 84 people and injured 120 others
OoZL TIL that yearly in the first weekend of September the city of Breda in The Netherlands hosts an International Redhead Festival.
xXRg TIL that the US National Archives has banned the search term wikileaks.