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TIL that downtown Milwaukee has a strip club called “Art’s Performing Center” located right next to the “Performing Arts Center”

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bgv0 TIL Bejeweled also originated in Russia, just like Tetris.
5YVdr TIL That the iPhone (and smartphones in general) have negatively impacted the sale of gum because people are more consumed with their phones and are less inclined to impulse buy when waiting to checkout at a store.
R51O1 TIL Stephen Hilder died during a 3-person team skydive after his main and reserve parachutes failed. The investigation into his death is "unique in British crime history" as it revealed expert-level tampering with both parachutes, but failed to determine whether the incident was murder or suicide.
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