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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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m1XvR TIL cooking has a million-year history
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BrPDd TIL of the battle of Central station where 5,000 soliders refused to do extra duty and walked off camp, crowded trains bound for Sydney where they were joined by 10,000 more soliders and spent the rest of the day raiding pubs and turning over fruit carts.
mMDp TIL that the Pillars of Creation were destroyed 6000 years ago, and in images of the Pillars the supernova suspected of destroying them is clearly visible in the background.
Bg45d TIL Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first saint from the USA and found of it's first religious order of nuns, was the daughter of the first anatomy professor in Columbia college and daughter-in-law to the last Royal Public Notary of New York City.