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Zpj44 TIL that WinCo Foods Inc., a popular chain of supermarket stores on the US West Coast, is majority-owned by its employees.
4gYb TIL Russell Crowe was born in New Zealand not Australia. However, despite living most of his life in Australia, identifying as Australian, and appearing on Australian stamps, he was refused Australian citizenship in 2006 and 2013.
GKbQ TIL The screams of those being gassed during the Holocaust were so disturbing that in order to stifle them, SS Officers would rev motorcycles as far as they would go. This proved to be futile, so they built gas chambers offsite.
QAMa TIL the caps lock key was created for the disabled and people with weak pinkies
pYGMZ TIL that in 2010 Tennessee firefighters watched a family's home burn to the ground because they hadn't paid a 75$ firefighting subscription fee