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TIL the Last Blockbuster store is now on Airbnb for 90s themed sleepovers.

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OGa96 TIL one of the earliest known account of Islam from a non-Islamic source is a manuscript called "The Teaching of Jacob" (634-640 AD) describing the conquest of Jerusalem by the Muslim army and mentioning a "prophet [who] had appeared, coming with the Saracens"
9Y80B TIL that Valentine's Day is the day that St. Valentine was beaten with clubs and tortured to death for performing secret marriages against the Emperor's wishes. The Emperor banned all marriages because soldiers didn't want to leave their families to fight in wars.
jNbjN TIL that people in Canada eat Mac&Cheese more than anyone in the world.
D1N1g TIL Ireland has finally reached its population level from the Great Famine. So Ireland as a whole finally has the same amount of people it had 170 years ago.
vPXnR TIL that until the 1960s pimentos were stuffed into olives by hand; now they are inserted by a specialized machine made in Spain that also removes the pits with an X-shaped punch (check out the bottom of your next olive to see the imprint).