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TIL a few reasons why Circuit City went out of business was because of its poor treatment of its best workers and poor customer service.

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jNAVQ TIL: A member of the Canadian Armed Forces holds the record for the longest confirmed kill shot at a distance of 3,540 meters or just over 2 miles.
L84m TIL that JFK awarded Canadian immigrant Frances Oldham Kelsey America’s highest federal civilian service award for preventing a major tragedy of birth deformities from thalidomide
xVNN7 TIL about Paul Frampton, a brilliant English physicist that was convicted in Argentina for drug smuggling, after he had been scammed by a man pretending to be Czech model Denise Milani into transporting two kilos of cocaine to Belgium
LQdNp TIL that in 1996 200m Gold Medalist, Michael Johnson (USA), believed he was the Worlds fastest man, and not the 100m World Record holder, Donovan Bailey (Canadian). They faced off in a 150m race resulting in a win for Donovan Bailey.
0dX05 TIL that Moe, Curly, and Shemp were brothers. Larry wasn’t related to the other stooges.