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TIL, there are almost 80 H-E-B stores in Mexico!

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ADMGg TIL that in Japan, western style underwear became popular only after a tragic incident of a fire in a departmental store (1932) which claimed 14 lives. It's alleged that some women refused to jump into the safety net as they were not wearing panties under their Kimono, the traditional Japanese dress
1E84 TIL The machines that harvest, process and slice potatoes are unable to tell the difference between them and golf balls, occasionally resulting in golf ball potato crisps/chips making it into packets.
6EMjZ TIL Black Sabbath regularly had speaker boxes full of cocaine delivered to Record Plant in Los Angeles, during the recording of the album Vol 4.
GAMbQ TIL that Bobby Caldwell was nominated for Best New Black Artist of the Year in 1979 by Billboard. Bobby did not win after they found out he was White. TI also Learned that Bobby was white.
vY0L TIL Scarlett Johansson almost got the lead role in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo but lost it because director David Fincher thought she was too sexy. He said that no one would take the rape scene seriously as the audience would just be waiting to see her naked.