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TIL that the 9/11 landfill was named Fresh Kills

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6E467 TIL that the Poundland discount stores chose Star Wars' Jedi Grand Master Yoda as the voice of their self-service checkout. "Finished, you have. Items, you must take!"
KOkgQ TIL about Kiviak, a traditional Inuit food from Greenland that consists of up to 500 small birds stuffed into a seal skin and left to ferment for several months. "The fermented intestinal fluids are sucked out from the whole birds, or used as a sauce for other foods."
8ao88 TIL that the US Navy maintains a white oak forest in Indiana for the oldest commissioned US naval vessel, USS Constitution. The forest is 150 oak trees in reserve for repairs to the wooden 224 year old Constitution when she needs it.
ADGMx TIL Colin Murdoch a New Zealand pharmacist made a number of significant inventions, in particular the tranquilliser gun, the disposable hypodermic syringe and the child-proof medicine container.
v1NJ7 TIL in 1959 a white man from Texas disguised himself as a black man and traveled for six weeks on greyhound buses. After publishing his experiences with racism he was forced to move to Mexico for several years due to death threats.