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

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woVEo TIL the only reason we have video of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series is because Bing Crosby was too nervous to watch the game live so he had a company record the game for him. During this time TV networks didn't keep records of the games. The tape was found 50 years later in his wine cellar.
4vdN TIL Minecraft is the 3rd best-selling game of all time, after Tetris and Wii Sports
X0LJ8 TIL that singer Dionne Warwick, upset with misogyny in rap lyrics, once set up a meeting with Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight at her home, where she demanded that they call her a “bitch” to her face. Snoop Dogg later said “I believe we got out-gangstered that day.”
wLx6 TIL that in Australian pornography, a woman’s labia has to be removed through photoshop because they are thought to be “too obscene”
8eLvL TIL Japan has one vending machine for every 30 people