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TIL Wal-Mart gets sued nearly 20 times a day, close to 5,000 lawsuits each year.

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PYn8g TIL the Nazis ordered 2 Auschwitz prisoners to destroy thousands of inmate mugshot photographs as the camp was evacuated in 1945. The inmates recognized the importance of that evidence and sabotaged the furnace thus saving 38,916 photos.
R5j16 TIL about the Clear Channel Memorandum following 9/11. A list of songs Radio Stations were encouraged not to play due to what they deemed insensitive lyrics following the attack.
9YowQ TIL that an optical illusion caused due to super light refraction may have prevented the Titanic from spotting the iceberg in time and also the closest freighter SS Californian from identifying the ocean liner when it was sinking
kO5b5 TIL The 1939 classic Gone with the Wind was the highest grossing movie in history until the Sound of Music broke the box office record in 1966. When Gone with the Wind was re-released in 1971 it regained the top spot until The Godfather sent it to "sleep with the fishes" the next year.
oRd7o Today I learned that our bodies are actually more bacteria than human! For every human cell, there are approximately 1.3 bacterial cells living in and on us! That's roughly 39 trillion bacterial cells vs. 30 trillion human cells! Mind-blown!