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TIL Walmart employs 1% of all US workers.

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YJKd TIL that influential blues musician Lead Belly was released early from prison after killing a man due to the fact that his music impressed the Louisiana governor so much.
JYwNV TIL in one variation of the Milgram experiment, subjects were directed to shock a "cute, fluffy puppy" instead of a human. Only half of the male subjects, and all of the female subjects obeyed the orders.
5Ym8P TIL the highest-ranking Billboard 200 death metal album of all time is from the virtual band Dethklok from the show Metalocalpyse. Frontman and co-creator Brendan Small performs the vocals, lead and rhythm guitars, keyboard, and bass in recordings; in the show he voices most of the main characters.
RL7w TIL that David Spade did not attend Chris Farley’s funeral because he “could not be in a room where Chris was in a box.”
LQELZ TIL New Mexico is the first (and so far only) US state to have an official "state aroma", the scent of roasting green chiles.