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TIL toilet paper is Costco’s best selling item, selling over a billion rolls at $400 million a year.

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E1Le7 TIL that during WWI, a bunch of Australians decided that they would go to no mans land and steal a German tank because they were bored and drunk.
wLDjJ TIL that theres an island off the east coast (near Washington DC) where the residents have unique British American accents, that are similar to Americas first settlers and founders. The accent is in danger of disappearing, because the island is sinking into the ocean
bnrN TIL Because Malcolm McDowell’s character killed Captain Kirk in “Star Trek: Generations”, he got death threats, some of them in Kilngon
oRMZr TIL of Sumanto, a cannibal who dug up corpses of recently dead people then ate them as part of a black magic ritual to make himself "invulnerable".
xVxek TIL there is a "Christmas Tree" (actually a large bush) located in the median of I-17 in Arizona, which has been decorated every year for over 30 years by an unknown group of persons