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TIL that grocery cashiers in the US are seldomly given chairs to sit during work (unlike in Europe).

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6LVZ TIL that a man spent 28 years in jail before a DNA test concluded that the hair found at the crime scene actually came from a dog.
6jQX TIL that after Bill Murray’s character in the 2001 film Osmosis Jones mentioned a fictitious “National Chicken Wing Festival” in Buffalo, New York, the city created a real version of the festival, and has held it every year since then.
0wj TIL The Rock knew about Bin Laden’s death before most people.
ADRwg TIL: Very few frog species actually make the familiar 'ribbit ribbit' sound made famous by the Baja California Chorus Frog which is native to Hollywood and Southern California
epO86 TIL American chocolate tastes like vomit or spoiled butter. Butyric acid was added to the Hershey “variety” as a preservative, and it’s still used today because many Americans are now accustomed to the vomit flavor.