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TIL 66% of Fortune 500 companies and more than half of all publicly traded corporations listed in the New York Stock Exchange are incorporated in Delaware because of its corporate friendly laws.

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J1QZm TIL European food used to be spicy like Indian food
kd4e TIL A group of jackalopes is called a flaggerdoot.
NAXM TIL Roald Dahl, author of “James and the Giant Peach” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, wrote the screenplay for the James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice”.
M4GV TIL in 2005, a woman performing her first solo skydive jump of 10000 ft survived a parachute malfunction which caused her to slam face first into a parking lot at 50 MPH. During surgery doctors discovered she was pregnant. She made a full recovery and the baby was fine.
MWLm TIL the man that (probably) holds the record for the most burglaries committed was a hermit that lived in the Maine woods and avoided human contact for almost 30 years