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TIL that the Lockheed Scandal caused Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to be arrested

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Oo80Y TIL an insurance company had to stop using their cartoon mascot Erin Esurance because she yielded too much fan made porn. When searching Esurance online, porn would come up first.
WNbB TIL that in the 19th century when Napoleon III invited the King Siam to a dinner, he gave himself Gold Cutlery, his troops Silver & the King of Siam Aluminium. This was no insult but an honour, aluminium was the most valuable metal on the planet. Today, aluminium is $1,800 a ton. Gold is $50 million
W0aA TIL that an Oregon police survey found that panhandlers outside of WalMart were making more than the employees working inside
J1l0v TIL that there are "black companies" in Japan infamous for their shady business practices such as unpaid overtime, verbal abuse and harassment, forcing their employees to work in weekends/holidays and not even letting them quit by threatening to sue or even discredit them at their new workplace
epExJ TIL in 1912 Republican presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette gave a speech to a group of 500 journalists in which he berated the group as being corrupt and working with the trusts. The group was shocked and thought he had a mental breakdown; a friend quipped he’d “killed himself politically.”