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TIL the treadmill was created as a torture device.

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ADKV4 TIL Family Video still operates over 500 stores in the US and Canada. They own the real estate where their stores are located and they own all of the media they rent out so they keep all of the profits. This is why they were able to outlast other video rental businesses like Blockbuster.
lp4N TIL that South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and the suicide peak is reached everytime a celebrity commits suicide.
R5WJ1 TIL: It was only 52 years ago that it became legal for unmarried couples in the United States to possess contraception.
AP7x TIL Kurt Cobain accidentally spat on Elton John’s piano at the 1992 VMA’s thinking it belonged to Axl Rose
5VXPB TIL that the American/Canadian cities called "Carlsbad" were named for the presence of mineral water springs, honoring the Bohemian spa city Karlovy Vary, or Karlsbad in German.