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TIL that employees and customers of the popular grocery chain Market Basket successfully boycotted the company after its beloved CEO was fired. During the monumental protests, Market Basket lost an estimated 10$ Million per day.

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XEork TIL of Kaiser, a Brazilian conman who had a 20-year football career without ever playing a single game. He hid his limited ability with fake injuries, connection to influential figures, and other ruses. One time he even started a fight with a fan to be sent off before a game to avoid playing
6JmX TIL: thorium reactors can use spent uranium rods and make their half-life only 300 years(instead of half a million), is very abundant, and a tiny ball of it would be enough to power my entire life, and only costs 100$.
R7rE4 TIL that every South Korean president living today has either been jailed or is in prison now.
jknN TIL The average high school student today has the same stress level as the average psychiatric patient did in the 1950s.
KOaN6 TIL Paul McCartney recorded the song Wonderful Christmastime entirely on his own during the sessions for his second solo album. In 2010 it was estimated that the song earns $400,000 a year, putting the overall earnings at $15 million.