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TIL that 7-Eleven(formerly Southland Ice) got it's name to bring attention to them expanding their hours of operation to 7am-11pm.

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aZbb TIL 2 million Indian people starved to death because Churchill and his trusted advisor refused to help, despite having a surplus of grain and ships
m1n6x TIL that Pulp Fiction magazines with weekly serialized stories, were the predecessors to modern Comics and Manga, starting as early as 1896
wLv9J TIL about the Megagon, a shape with 1,000,000 sides that, even if it were drawn at the size of the Earth, would be hard to distinguish from a circle.
DoeP TIL: Mary Bowser, a freed slave with a Quaker education and a photographic memory, posed as a slow witted slave to spy for the Union in Confederate president Jefferson Davis’ household through much of the Civil War.
yV7W8 TIL that originally Pixar made computers and made 3D animations to show how powerful their computers were. People liked the cartoons so much they later became an entertainment company