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TIL of 'Truck Wages' or 'Company Scrip, where an employer will pay employees in company minted money that is only redeemable in company owned stores. It is referenced in the sea shanty 'Wellerman' and the last company to get sued for using it was Walmart Mexico.

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LQwQ TIL that in Korea, there are cat cafes where you can go to drink coffee and hang out with cats for hours.
LnPQ TIL that there is a McDonald’s that is closed to the public and is just used for filming commercials.
O6eX TIL that there were more than 42,500 concentration camps in Europe during World War 2
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yV85e TIL the chicken nugget was invented in the 1950s by Robert C. Baker, a food science professor at Cornell University, and published as unpatented academic work. This bite-sized piece of chicken, coated in batter and then deep fried, was called the "Chicken Crispie" by Baker and his associates.