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TIL that Walmart’s best selling items before a hurricane are Strawberry Pop-tarts and Beer

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R748 TIL the oldest company in the world, founded in year 578, went bankrupt and got sold in 2006.
VQOG TIL that the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge being depicted as an apple may have originated as a Latin pun: by eating the malum (apple), Eve contracted mālum (evil).
dDAXZ TIL instead of Valentine's Day, Romanians celebrate "Dragobete" on February 24th. It's a celebration of spring and love, on the day when birds (supposedly) start nests.
XEVMD TIL of the Iron harvest, where unexploded ordnance and equipment from WW1 is uncovered by French and Belgian farmers when ploughing their fields each year
PoBZ TIL a study showed a shocking 29% increase in drug usage and a 34% increase in tobacco usage among students participating in DARE(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) in America