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TIL Costco purposefully designed their store without signs to force people to wander through all the aisles and find things to buy.

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xV897 TIL that Kurt Cobain met and made an album with his idol novelist William Burroughs. After Cobain left their first meeting with each other in October 1993, Burroughs said to his secretary "There is something wrong with that boy, he frowns for no good reason".
e1xJ TIL Horton Hears a Who, by Dr. Seuss, is an allegory for post-WWII US occupation of Japan. Seuss, who was vehemently anti-Japanese during the conflict, had a drastic change of heart after visiting postwar Japan. He dedicated the book to a Japanese friend.
OyDL TIL that an English photographer makes her living by taking lookalike photos of celebrities, including so-called shots of the queen on the toilet, a US president playing guitar in a sauna, and Marilyn Monroe being intimate with J F K.
OoAN1 TIL of the cortical homunculus, a physical representation of a male human based on a neurological map of the parts of your body that send the most sensory information to the brain.
KOrma TIL of 2020 CD3, a near-earth asteroid and temporary satellite of earth expected to break free in May 2020