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TIL that Harbor Freight toss things you return into the dumpster

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4kVn6 TIL According to halacha (Jewish law), married Jewish women are expected to cover their hair when in the presence of men other than their husband or close family members.
5YKep TIL The song 'Glycerine' by the band Bush was written about Gavin Rossdale's relationship with his girlfriend at the time, a model named Jasmine Lewis. The title comes from the explosive applications of glycerine to stabilize nitro. Rossdale said the song was about how love was like a bomb.
Z5Yv TIL that in the United States, Asians earn the highest average salary by race. (repost-self)
jrWj TIL Stalin liked to play practical jokes, so he created a rule which stated that no one could enter his bedchambers, so one night he pretended to scream in agony, and his guards rushed in to protect him, but they broke Stalin’s rule, and Stalin executed them shortly afterwards.
8ewXa TIL Bram Stoker (of Dracula fame) also wrote a collection of children's stories. Critics of the time called them "morbid"