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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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E1Wa7 TIL Twinkies cream center contains absolutely no cream. Instead, it’s full of shortening - a cheap fat.
kJr5e TIL Frank Hayes, a Horse Racer, died in the last part of a race from a heart attack and his body remained in the saddle when his horse crossed the finish line, winning the race, and making him the first, and so far only, jockey known to have won a race after death
K5oG TIL 12 Russian botanists starved to death during the Siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the winter of 1941, rather than consuming the foodstuffs stored at the world’s first seed bank where they worked, Pavlosk Experimental Station.
newVW TIL in 2015 a Texas man attempted to shoot an armadillo, but it's armored shell bounced the bullet back and hit the shooter in the head
ZpPY TIL that there is an organization that has been actively tracking down and exterminating all surviving copies of the 90’s NES game, Shaq Fu.