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TIL that Norways oil fund, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, boycotts investing in Wal-Mart, due to ethical reasons, among those "blocking workers' efforts to form unions"

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pY49p TIL - Chinese Restaurant Syndrome actually originated from a letter by a Chinese physician named Kwok that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1968, describing certain symptoms he had experienced after eating Chinese food.
1XVD TIL Kim Jong-il only ever publicly addressed the North Korean people once, in 1992 he said during a military parade “Glory to the officers and soldiers of the heroic Korean People’s Army!.” He never made another public speech again.
l78NK TIL about the church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster that practices Pastafarianism. Said monster created the universe while drunk. It's version of Heaven includes a beer volcano and a stripper factory.
QJrD9 TIL In 2001, Pizza Hut Delivered a Pizza to the International Space Station.
aRWo TIL that an Ohio judge sentenced a woman to spend 8 hours in the “smelliest, most god-awful place they can find” at a garbage dump, for neglecting her dog. “If you puke, you puke”