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TIL Nike makes a carpet underlayment pad made from manufacturing scrap that sells exclusively at Home Depot.

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GYrAQ TIL in France, it’s against the law for grocery stores to throw away food. It must either be composted or donated to charity.
MegmA [TIL] Fighter jets can (and have) shot themselves down by flying into their own bullets. One evidently ran into its own rounds a full minute after they were fired.
rR6WM TIL that November 9th is often called the 'Day of Fate' in German history - Robert Blum's death in 1848, Kaiser Wilhelm's abdication in 1918, Einstein's Nobel Prize win in 1922, the Munich Putsch in 1923, Kristallnacht in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 all occurred on the same date.
MYY7 TIL that the phrase “I have a bad feeling about this” was spoken in every Star Wars movie.
5YbLr TIL: In some Hispanic cultures their version of the tooth fairy is a rat called "Ratón Pérez" or El Ratón de Los Dientes