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TIL Walmart employs 1% of all US workers.

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YpY6B TIL that Anne Whitney, an American sculptor, won the blind contest to create a statue of Charles Sumner in Boston Public Garden in 1875. When they found out that she was a woman they declared it "inappropriate" for her to have sculpted a man and gave the commission to Thomas Ball instead.
xRAk TIL that in seniors life expectancy can be predicted from their regular walking speed. The faster the speed the higher the survival rate.
LyD0 TIL that the Soviet Union did not admit that a reactor had exploded at Chernobyl until nearly 3 days after radiation from the disaster set off alarms at a nuclear plant in Sweden 1000 km away.
PAjw TIL that property owners only have rights to about 500 feet in elevation, and the FAA is seeking to lower this limit for drone use, which is increasing.
Y7X1B TIL Douglas fir trees aren't firs