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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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RB51 TIL Texas abolished “Last Meal” before execution because a prisoner, Lawrence Russell Brewer, requested a 5 course meal and ate nothing of it because he “wasn’t hungry after all”
QJJKd TIL that The Red Baron's brother Lothar, who was in Jasta 11 under his brother's command, survived the war, only to die in 1922 when his plane's engine failed.
l75Z1 TIL that Bruce Willis has a music album with a song that made it to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, “Respect Yourself”.
W7XbX TIL that on warning of a likely missile launch against the USA, the Pentagon and Strategic Command war rooms, have one minute to brief the president, who then has roughly only six minutes to decide whether and how to respond.