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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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690pm TIL while on safari, Hemingway survived 2 plane crashes one day apart. The 2nd caught fire & he had to smash open the door with his head, causing extensive burns & skeletal injuries. He was presumed dead until he walked out of the jungle "in high spirits", carrying bananas and a bottle of gin.
QRJp TIL: Leonard Cohen wrote more than 80 verses for Hallelujah before deciding which made the final cut for the song.
rK9d TIL that in zero gravity, a candle’s flame is round and blue
6E7D8 TIL that one of the documents the US Constitution is predominantly modeled after is the Iroquois Constitution, an extremely sophisticated and logically consistent document that governed the 5 Native American tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people.
BN6D TIL: Spike Jones was the Weird Al Yankovic of the 40s and 50s. It was considered an honor for him to satirize your work. You’ll probably recognize one of his more popular hits this time of year: “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth”