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TIL Walmart has an entire emergency management department with a 24/7 emergency operations center.

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lROV TIL that among the methods to find out how Latin was pronounced was comparing spelling mistakes.
JkRm TIL There are 1,560 people in the US who had identical first and last names, of which, Thomas Thomas was the most common
vPwV7 TIL at her 80th birthday, Queen Elizabeth II quoted Groucho Marx: "Anyone can get old - all you have to do is to live long enough".
yVJ0w TIL: Wife selling was a practice in England for almost 2 centuries with last incident being in 1913 where one was sold to a coworker for £1. It ended unhappy marriages as divorces were expensive. Eventually there were public auctions that the wife had to agree to. You can even buy back your wife.
pVdN TIL: That the Parrotfish eats dead coral, but since it has no stomach, their meals pass straight through the long intestine, exploding in a cloud of sand out the backdoor. Larger parrotfish are like sand factories, producing as much as 840 pounds of sand per year.