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TIL Goodwill is a multibillion dollar company, but pays some of it’s disabled workers as little as 22 cents an hour due to a legal loophole.

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4XpgX TIL that captive cheetah kittens are sometimes paired with rescue puppies to keep them calm and stress-free as they grow up.
rEXo TIL Malta holds the record for the longest sustained bombing attack at 154 consecutive days and nights during WWII. For their resilience, every citizen on the island was awarded Britain’s George Cross for bravery.
R5ga4 TIL the Ancient Egyptians had an annual "feast of drunkenness" commemorating the time humanity was saved by beer
RZK9 TIL that after NetFlix’s S3 House of Cards was released the bandwidth required to run Netflix went from 30% to 45% of the total Internet bandwidth in the US
ZpMWY TIL Red Star baijiu is known as the ‘Coca-Cola of Chinese spirits’. Made entirely of sorghum, this brand received the first business license issued by the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to produce alcohol for the nation’s inaugural ceremony