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TIL Walmart employs 1% of all US workers.

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jWPE TIL that when Carrie Fisher was asked wether she knew that Star Wars would be as successfull as it turned out to be she said “Yes, I knew. We all knew. The only one who didn’t know was George. We kept it from him because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression.”
EWLX TIL Paul McCartney’s one condition for appearing in the “Lisa the Vegetarian” episode of the Simpsons was that Lisa remain a vegetarian for the rest of the series.
nyLY TIL that when Charlie Chaplin received his honorary Oscar, he received a 12-minute standing ovation - the longest in Oscar history.
EA8w TIL: 87 years ago, there was a day that the BBC had no news to report. So they just played piano music.
D1pvr TIL that the death of Aerith Gainsborough (Final Fantasy VII) had such an emotional impact on fans, they submitted a petition to Yoshinori Kitase requesting her return. It is cited as a major reason for the games success. GamePro considers her death sequence to be the greatest of all gaming moments.