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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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kOOV5 TIL: The French government states that fatherhood is determined by society, rather than biology. As such paternity testing is regulated by the state and only allowed in certain cases.
XENwE TIL that Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois has a bulldozer underneath the field. During construction of the stadium, torrential rains caused a bulldozer to sink into the mud. Being too expensive to remove, the bulldozer remains buried beneath the field as of this day
BAdb TIL The Doors were banned from the Ed Sullivan show after saying “higher” when performing Light My Fire although agreeing to change it during rehearsal to “better” as it could be referencing drug use.
ADYnB TIL that in 2006, the US department of defense paid $997.798 for two nineteen cent washers
YpQ5x TIL a key piece of evidence in an active murder investigation, a unique pair of eyeglasses, was sent to the show "Unsolved Mysteries" for their segment profiling the case. After Robert Stack handled them with his bare hands, they were lost. An innocent man was imprisoned for two decades.