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TIL That in Canada a corporation’s management is required to work for the best interest of the company, not the shareholders.

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BMrb TIL Steve McQueen would often demand free items in bulk from studios (razors, jeans, etc.) and would donate them to a reformatory school.
e0YKJ TIL in 1996 Pfizer killed 11 children during illegal human experiments in Nigeria while testing it's new antibiotic trovafloxacin (Trovan).
XLWQ TIL the same guy who voices Optimus Prime voiced Eeyore as well as characters in Ducktales, My Little Pony, and Carebears.
oEx7 TIL of the World Health Organization “Cocaine Project,” which was banned from publication because it concluded that, “occasional cocaine use does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems,” among other positives
JYWXB TIL Ginggaew Lorsoungnern, a Thai convict executed by firing squad, was discovered to have a rare condition called Situs Inversus (internal organs reversed) after she was shot in the left side of her chest and survived. After waking up in the morgue she was taken back and executed.