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TIL 14% of women send themselves flowers on Valentine’s Day

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nwM9 TIL Best Buy used to have a fake internal website that looked exactly like their actual internet website, but with marked up prices, so they could price gouge in-store customers.
XKQQ TIL some ducks have been observed floating through tidal rapids or fast-moving sections of rivers, and when they’ve reached the end, hurrying back to the beginning to ride over and over.
D1DDV TIL Sir Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman hold the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero"
mx0O TIL an Indian soldier, after being shot in the groin and shoulder, finished climbing an ice cliff, took out a bunker with a grenade, then another 4 enemies with his bare hands.
jN79X TIL the city of Venice is actually mostly on the mainland. The historic old town is in the lagoon (the "floating city"), while 4/5ths of the city's 260 000 residents live on the mainland where there are normal streets, etc.