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TIL Wal-Mart lost $100m on life insurance policies it secretly bought for its employees and never intended to pay to their families

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l7lmA TIL that the name of Burkina Faso blends two different languages spoken in the country, Burkina means "upright" in Mossi, Faso means "fatherland" in Dioula, and the full name is intended to translate as "land of the honest men".
P1p0E TIL that in the US bartenders/waiters can be sued by the patrons themselves if they end up drunk and getting into trouble
yj5p TIL that the murderers of Emmett Till, who was killed on this day in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, gave a full confession detailing the murder to Look Magazine, after they were aquitted of murder by an all white jury.
ga8 TIL That the male spiders Sexual organ works faster as well as more efficiently when it is detached by the female thus killing the male, It’s called the eunuch phenomenon
AnJo TIL “Milky” Way comes from goddess Hera’s breast milk. When Hercales was born, Zeus wanted him to have godlike qualities so he let him suck Hera’s milk (his wife) when she was sleeping. When she woke, she pushed him off, and spilled milk all over the sky.