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TIL that Costco Wholesaler has a funeral section and sells caskets.

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oRjwR TIL in 2009, My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero had his home searched, his wife interviewed and was put on the FBI watchlist after releasing a song called “I Am Going to Kill the President of the United States of America” by his band Leathermouth. He was banned from performing it (but did).
bEEN TIL: In the Olympics of 67 A.D., Emperor Nero competed in the 4-horse chariot races with a 10-horse team, only to be thrown from his chariot. He didn’t finish the race but he was still proclaimed the winner on the grounds that he would have won had he been able to complete the race.
GY0y5 TIL that up until 1912, Americans could place an order in the Sears catalog and receive a syringe, two needles, and two vials of heroin in a handsome carrying case from the German pharmaceutical company Bayer for $1.50
woO1M TIL Mara Wilson, the actor who played in Matilda (1996) and Mrs. Doubtfire, is actually cousins with Ben Shapiro.
v1VRL TIL the first Asian Americans to fight on behalf of the US were Filipinos, referred to by General Andrew Jackson as "Manilamen" during the War of 1812. They were from a small fishing town called Saint Malo in Louisiana, which is also the first Filipino Settlement in the US.