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TIL Some of America’s biggest employers like Walmart, Amazon and FedEx, don’t match employee donations to charity

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9WPX TIL Gordon Ramsay left one of his first jobs while as an aspiring chef because he was tired of “the rages the bullying and violence” perpetrated by the head chef
KO6ya TIL The word for “the day after tomorrow” is “overmorrow”
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