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TIL: The iconic Ghostface mask from the movie Scream was originally just a generic dollar store mask that was found in a garage.

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4AjN TIL it is against the law for supermarkets, department stores, and other big box stores in Rhode Island, Maine, and Massachusetts to be open on Thanksgiving.
ZpJya TIL the Swiss village of Iseltwald has seen a surge in tourism due to the K-drama "Crash Landing on You". Fans visit because it's the location of a romantic scene from the popular South Korean show
W7dwd TIL: Economist Michael Housman used to data from 30,000 employees to find correlations between their preferred browser and job performance. Employees who used Firefox/Chrome stay 15% longer and were 19% less likely to miss work and had happier customers than employees who used IE or Safari.
7rK9p TIL: Costa Rica abolished their military in 1948 and hasn't had a standing army since
b9k9E TIL that when the USS Susan B. Anthony sank in 1944, after it was hit by a mine off the coast of Normandy, all 2,689 people aboard were saved. According to the Guinness world book of Records, this is the largest rescue of people without loss of life.