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TIL Wal-Mart was founded with the intention of selling American-made products at foreign made prices.

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Bgv0b TIL in 1990, a Domino's Pizza owner in Washington DC noticed a record-breaking number of pizza orders from the Pentagon leading up to the Invasion of Kuwait. Similar increases happened leading up the Panama Invasion and Grenada Invasion; the intelligence leakage became known as The Pizza Meter
W7XeA TIL all seaweed is safe to eat because there is no known poisonous or toxic seaweed
R76ww TIL that Ancient Incan society didn’t have a money system at all…
VBvG0 TIL of the Buddhist majority republic in Europe, the autonomous Kalmykia region of Russia
JopV TIL one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project teaches a free, online MIT course of introductiry biological titled: The Secret of Life