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TIL that Aldi operates the supermarket chain Trader Joe’s.

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QJ0Zd TIL that Mitch Mitchell was chosen over Ansley Dunbar to be the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience by a coin toss. He would later not be chosen as the drummer for Paul McCartney and Wings when he lost a coin toss.
nWoQo TIL: 70% of hearing parents of deaf children never learn sign language.
Aplo TIL, The British National Grid have to prepare for power surges due to so many people switching on kettles during advertisement breaks of popular shows.
LgPd TIL that in ancient Rome, one of the most common cooking ingredients was called “laser”, from the silphium plant. It does not exist today: it was so delicious that it was harvested to extinction from its natural habitat in what is now Libya. We think that it probably tasted something like garlic.
R5oG4 TIL Chlorovirus ATCV-1, an algal virus commonly found in lakes, can infect humans and remain in their mucosal surfaces, where its presence is associated with a modest decrease in cognitive functioning.