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TIL the reason competing retail stores like CVS/Walgreens open right beside each other: if the consumer does not have a preference for either chain, then both stores stand an increased chance of making a sale compared to them being apart.

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R7NbQ TIL that the myth of the changeling - of faeries replacing a stolen human child with their own - could have been born as an explanation of autistic children. Many traits associated with faeries, such as obsessive counting, are also known in the autism spectrum.
b67jp TIL Jimi Hendrix joined the Army after he was caught Joyriding and given the choice between prison or service. He served in the 101st Airborne and was qualified as a Paratrooper. Due to his inability to function in an authority environment, he was given a general discharge under honorable condition.
epab TIL In 1962 200 million US and Russian citizens narrowly missed getting nuked. As a result, There is a red phone linking the White House and Kremlin.
9glM TIL that Luke Magnotta, a 30-year-old former porn actor, murdered, dismembered, and cannibalized a Chinese exchange student, posted a video of it online, then mailed the body parts to various Canadian political parties.
vPOO7 Today i learned that Margaret Thatcher threatened to nuke Buenos Aires if the French did not give the codes to disable Exocet missiles.