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TIL that at one point, Blockbuster was growing so fast that it was opening a new store every 17 hours

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ZpaVB TIL Bush and Reagan argued for open borders with Mexico. Reagan scoffed at the idea of a wall.
x9Dg TIL the original Zoboomafoo is still around and has fathered five children
b950Z TIL that pumping water from the ground causes the ground to contract. Areas with high well usage can lose dozens and dozens of feet of elevation due to this "land subsidence".
VB4WD TIL in 1345 Ciuto Brandini, a lowly worker in the Florentine textile industry attempted to organise his colleagues into a union. He held worker's assemblies and collected tithes to be used for strike funds. After his arrest on sedition charges, his companions went on strike demanding his release
grOeA TIL that a Schandmantel was a torture device fashioned from wood and sometimes metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them. The Schandmantel was mostly used as punishment for poachers and prostitutes