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TIL since 2011, there have been at least 4 incidents of people cooking meth inside a Walmart

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b6Ma9 TIL that in 1996, Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, casually choke-slammed two protesters to the ground at a public event while making his way through a crowd. It is known as the “Shawinigan Handshake.”
PY16L TIL that "the Winchester – Shaun of the Dead" received 10,000 votes for a Lego project but Lego decided that "This is the first time we’ve felt that we should turn a LEGO CUUSOO idea down"
l7KAr TIL Guinness trademarked the harp as its logo in 1876, so when Ireland gained independence in 1922 it had mirror Guinness’s design to use the harp as a symbol.
Ry6j TIL: Katrin Himmler, grandniece of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, has NOT refused to have children to end her great-uncle’s bloodline. She believes the idea of good or evil being passed through bloodlines is itself a reflection of Nazi ideology.
GYDAN TIL there are around 6500 languages spoken in the world today, and 2000 of those languages have less than 1000 speakers