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TIL Walmart is the world’s largest retail company. From 2005 to 2018 US companies dominated the ten world’s largest retailers.

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MgDA TIL That ‘Blood Feuds’ are still active in Albania. If someone kills someone, the family then kills someone from their family and it goes back and forth. The only safe haven is your home. Some feuds are decades old, and some children hardly leave their home to stay safe.
BgB5D TIL that in Italy until 1981, if you caught your daughter or sister having extra-marital sex and killed them, the sentence was just 3-7 years of prison.
kOKbB TIL of Inochi Tendenko (go separately) - the maxim in tsunami prone areas of Japan that dictates that the individual need not stay and help others but should run and preserve his or her life instead
LkxDZ TIL The tuxedo is named after Tuxedo Park a Hudson valley enclave for NY Social elite. The first one was made for the prince of Wales (king Edward VII) by Henry Poole tailors in Savile Row.
N7XlM TIL that the Chinese use drones equipped with flame-throwers to fight trash stuck in power lines.