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TIL that the Honest Ed’s dollar store in Toronto keeps two professional sign painters on staff to hand-paint dozens of signs every day to advertise the store’s specials.

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QJmnM TIL that a middle school football coach in Oregon was fired for trying to take his team to Hooters to celebrate the end of the season.
5V1V9 TIL that the majority of ancient Brits came from a 6,000-year-old Spanish tribe
y6y8 TIL Dave Foley can’t return to Canada without facing imprisonment due to unpaid child support.
RBPl TIL The core of the first nuclear weapon was driven to the test range in the back seat of a scientist’s car.
84xK TIL scientist Craig Venter created a cell with the smallest genome of any known (independent) organism. With 473 genes, the cell is a milestone to reduce life to its bare essentials and to design life from scratch.