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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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negdP TIL that in 1162 in revenge for insulting his wife, The Holy Roman Emperor forced every resident of Milan who wished to live to pluck a fig placed into the genitals of a female mule.