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TIL the luxury automobile division of the Rolls Royce brand is actually owned by BMW. The actual Rolls Royce company operates exclusively in the defense sector, building planes, ship engines, and nuclear submarines.

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1678d TIL Krogrer stores (QFC, King Soopers, Fred Meyer, etc.) will pay for shipping if you put packaging from their personal brands in a box and mail it back to them for reuse at no cost to you. You can use a box you already own. They also recycle tons of types of plastic in-store.
WkGXL TIL that many house pools do not get their water changed, instead, the water just got cleaned, which means it's the same water in the pool year after year...
AEGw TIL former Princess Sayako (daughter of the current emperor of Japan) practiced supermarket shopping to prepare for new lifestyle after marrying a commoner
loekV TIL about Scott and Helen Nearing, who bought acreage in the Great Depression and lived off the land until a ski resort saw their property value soar to $6 million. Deciding they'd done nothing to justify the increase, they donated the land to use as a forest, moved to Maine, and lived to age 99.
jBlX TIL Roughly 1/6 of the $6.9 million budget for the movie Dazed and Confused was used just to acquire the rights to many of the 70s music used in the film.