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TIL Walmart only sells clean versions of albums and if an artist refuses to make a clean version Walmart will not sell it.

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YxMr TIL in David Fincher’s thriller Se7en, Kevin Spacey refused billing on the film, fearing that it might compromise the ending if audiences were waiting for him to appear.
oBbgE TIL of Al Schmid, a US marine who continued to man his machine gun on Guadalcanal even after being permanently blinded by a Japanese grenade, and later received the Navy Cross for his actions
XElDk TIL Groundhog Day took its repeating time idea from an Oscar Nominated short film starring Kurtwood Smith called 12:01. The writer of the original story almost sued the producers of Groundhog Day but decided against it.
OG6mL TIL Since the brown treesnake has no natural predators or other controls on Guam, it multiplied rapidly and has virtually wiped out Guam’s native forest birds. The snakes also crawl on electrical lines and cause expensive power outages and electrical damage.
VMer4 TIL: since the population of London is greater than the maximum number of hairs that can be present on a human's head, the pigeonhole principle requires that there must be at least two people in London who have the same number of hairs on their heads.