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TIL I learned that not only did they make a Stranger Things spinoff for Broadway, it won four Tonies.

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8eE0a TIL There is a national (US) grocery Best Bagger competition since 1987
lZ9r TIL Miguel Hidalgo, one of the greatest revolutionary leaders of the Mexican Independence War, decided to retreat his army of about 80,000 on the verge of conquering Mexico City. To this day, this decision baffles historians.
wvVJ TIL John Swartzwelder, a writer for the Simpsons used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop “drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes”. When California passed an anti-smoking law, he bought the diner booth and installed it in his house.
j64lE TIL about Alan Magee, an American airman during WWII. In 1943, he was on a bombing run over Saint-Nazaire, France, when his plane broke apart in mid-air and his parachute was torn. Magee blacked out from lack of oxygen and survived a 22,000-foot fall by crashing through a train station's glass roof.
4VBN TIL, Ancient Greeks and Romans used asbestos to make fire retardant materials so they could be cleaned by throwing them into the fire. Pliny the Elder noted that people who had contact with asbestos-containing materials acquired “sickness of the lungs.”