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TIL the “Quick Stop” convience store featured in the movie ‘Clerks’ is a real convience store in New Jersey that Kevin Smith worked at while making the film.

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j5Gp TIL The United States Congress only has a job approval rating of around 15%, but Congressional incumbents are re-elected at a rate of roughly 95%
epMwk TIL that future hurricane names are already known and chosen well in advance by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Each region has its own list of names that are rotated every six years, and if a hurricane is particularly deadly or costly, its name can be retired to prevent confusion.
x6AXg TIL: During his opening of Japan to the America's through a show of force, Matthew C. Perry, during the signing event, followed the kabuki play with US military band music... and a blackface minstrelsy. He got $20,000 at the time for his work in Japan.
njLP TIL that after the CDC published a report in the mid ‘90s that showed a gun kept for protection was more likely to kill the owner or a loved one than an intruder, the NRA lobbied for and got legislation that made it illegal for the CDC to study the health impact of guns.
81rb TIL In 2011, a survey done showed that approximately 60% of Jamaicans would push to once again become a British territory; citing years of social and fiscal mismanagement in the country.