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TIL there are no Walmarts in NYC (all 5 boroughs) whatsoever due to political pressure as well as neighborhood, labor and environmental groups and small businesses

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0wmER TIL Christopher Columbus used a book of astronomical tables when the next lunar eclipse would take place and use it to warn the indigenous people in Jamaica to treat his crew better or else the moon would rise red. Lunar eclipse happened, and they pleaded Columbus to restore the moon.
l7BbV TIL controversial Minister Louis Farrakhan who has made many negative statements about Jewish People in the past is a symphony-level classic violin musician and in 1993 he performed a Mendessohn composition he said was an effort to heal a rift between him and the Jewish community.
VMR80 TIL that ants have designated paramedics that are assigned to rescue their wounded soldiers, carry them back to their nest and help them heal by gently holding the hurt limb in place with their mandibles and front legs while intensely “licking” the wound for up to 4 minutes.
awdnM TIL Stanley Kubrick wanted to use Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother suite in A Clockwork Orange. Pink Floyd's bassist Roger Waters refused when he found out Kubrick would edit the music to fit the film. Later, Waters asked Kubrick to use sounds from 2001: A Space Odyssey on a record. Kubrick refused.
EKMP TIL when the platypus was first discovered, European naturalists were so baffled by it’s appearance that it was thought to be an elaborate hoax