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TIL Spain shares a land border with Morocco

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KYOQa TIL the founder of Safeway supermarkets was a preacher who felt that credit purchases were evil, and named his cash-only stores to promote the “safe way to shop”.
aweB0 TIL: In 1672 the Dutch Prime Minister became so unpopular that a mob murdered him & his brother and then cooked and ate them.
b6rW9 TIL that Franc Roddam, director of 1979 The Who's 'Quadrophenia' and creator of British show 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' is the creator of 'MasterChef'. Roddam had the idea for the show after Mel Brooks mocked British food during a production meeting in the 80s.
WkpMB TIL of blindsight, where a cortically blind person can't consciously see but still has visual information subconsciously processed. Such a person may avoid an obstacle in their field of view but not know why they did so.
j7vN TIL that in October of 2014, Amanda Bynes tweeted that her father sexually abused her as a child. She later claimed that this was not the case, and a microchip implanted in her brain forced her to say it.