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TIL that Count Von Count on Sesame Street is lore accurate because vampires suffer from arithnomania

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v1P68 TIL Target Canada closed down all 133 retail locations and laid off 17,600 employees after less than two years
neXd9 TIL that in 1938 early aviator Douglas Corrigan was denied permission to fly from New York to Ierland. Since he was denied he planned to fly to California instead. 28 hours later he arrived in Ireland, telling officials that he must have mistakenly gone the wrong way.
V5dZ TIL During ‘Brainstorm’ filming, Natalie Wood drowned while on a boat with Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken. Wood’s body was discovered 1Mile away and small dinghy found nearby. The autopsy showed bruises on her body and arms as well as an abrasion on her left cheek.
p8Dp8 TIL about Teddy Houlston, the world's youngest organ donor. Born with a terminal condition, Teddy lived for only 100 minutes. Teddy's donated kidneys saved the life of an adult with renal failure.
ZOED TIL that in South Africa,2009, an employee of an IT company complained that data would get transferred faster by carrier pigeon than on ASDL. Winston the pigeon armed with 4gb memory stick took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.