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TIL Costco sells $400 million of toilet paper a year. It is often their best selling product.

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ENxo TIL that King Cobras aren’t actually true cobras and are called that because their diet consists of other snakes, including Cobras.
AyZg TIL The Beatles approached Stanley Kubrick to direct a LOTR movie starring themselves. Tolkien killed the project as a result of his hate for The Beatles. A hate developed after moving 3 doors down from The Beatles in 1964, who irked him with the “indescribable” noise from their practice sessions.
M710a TIL that when the submarine ARA San Juan disappeared in 2017, initial search crews picked up a banging noise at the search site, like tools hitting metal. After analyzing the audio, it was determined the sound was not from the submarine and was probably from a biological source.
nYJd TIL that pencil is etymologically related to penis, but not pen
4Xlgw TIL The word 'fiery' is older than the word 'fire'