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TIL Walmart allows RV’s to park overnight, pending available space, as they are considered some of their best customers.

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woYJW TIL that the city of Pesqueria, Mexico has a significant Korean diaspora. Approximately 6,000 of the 147,000 residents, or 4% of the total population, came from South Korea after a KIA manufacturing plant opened there.
nNnd TIL Steve Buscemi was a New York City fire fighter from 1980 to 1984. After the events of 9/11, he showed up in NYC to volunteer, working twelve-hour shifts for a week, and digging through rubble with his old comrades looking for missing firefighters.
NDZJ TIL in 1947 the US government simulated a biological warfare attack by spraying bacteria on the entire city of San Francisco without informing the residents or obtaining consent, in violation of The Nuremberg Code.
wWd7 TIL: In “Batman and Captain America”, the Joker teamed up with a character named Red Skull. However, on learning the character was actually a nazi and not just pretending, the Joker turned on him, proclaimed “I may be a criminal lunatic, but I’m an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!”
En5w TIL that in the first Pokémon games you were supposed to fight Professor Oak at some point, but the fight was removed from the final game.