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TIL that in 2000, Walmart was sued 4,851 times - about once every 2 hours

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GXyQ TIL that when the last woolly mammoths died out, the pyramids of Giza were already a thousand years old
yQeMv TIL the "blue ribbon" in the name of Pabst Blue Ribbon does not come from it winning a first place blue ribbon in any contests. It comes the fact that little blue ribbons were tied around the bottles between 1882 and 1916.
L9dP TIL that an indian who saw his homeland go barren due to deforestation, took to planting trees himself and 37 years later , he is responsible for the formation of a tropical paradise which not only has trees but different wildlife species such as rhinos,tigers,elephants etc too.
jej TIL on August 5, 1944, one of the biggest jail-breaks in history involved hundreds of Japanese POWs attempting to escape an Australian prisoner camp. The Japanese considered the Australians weak because they treated the prisoners well. 234 of the Japanese were killed and another 108 wounded.
Epk7 TIL the movie “The China Syndrome”, which tells the story of a reporter who discovers safety coverups at a nuclear power plant, was met with backlash from the nuclear power industry for being “sheer fiction”. Twelve days later, the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown accident occurred.