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TIL: Henry Ford doubled his workers wages to keep them from walking off the job, not so they could afford to buy his cars.

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6EnmJ TIL that the Portuguese in India used to rip off native women's breasts with large iron forks for not converting to Christianity. They did so to threaten others to fall in line and to stop them from feeding their newborns.
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nwLo TIL haggis is illegal in the US because one of its key ingredients is sheep lungs.
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4k6ZX TIL in the United States two states share the coolest record high temperature for their respective state of 100F. Alaska and Hawaii are the two states.