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TIL in 2006, a Walmart in Canada, following a bomb threat, forced it’s employees to help police search the store for the bomb.

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mxRev TIL Lynchburg, TN isn't named after lynchings, but after Lynchburg, VA. Lynchburg, VA was named after founder John Lynch. John's brother was a man called Charles Lynch, a militiaman and quaker who extra-judiciously lynched Loyalists and is considered to be the namesake of the term lynching.
G9wJ TIL a man named John Wesley Hyatt invented a replacement for ivory billiard balls. The balls were made of nitrocellulose, a substance prone to exploding when struck by things such as a pool cue.
Zobp TIL pineapples used to be valued at $5000, rarely eaten and used as a status symbol at parties
W7Ex9 TIL that a Korean serial killer named Yoo Young-chul was caught in 2004 because a brothel owner just happened to recognize Yoo's phone number after other prostitutes—who were murdered by Yoo—had gone missing.
LkPkm TIL George Carlin was the narrator for the children's show Thomas & Friends