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TIL: Walmart uses 22 shell companies to avoid paying taxes.
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RLR1
TIL they still make fruit-shaped Trix in Mexico!
X0eKX
TIL In 2018, 50 years after his Apollo 8 mission, astronaut Bill Anders ridiculed the idea of sending human missions to Mars, calling it "stupid". His former crewmate Frank Borman shares Ander's view, adding that putting colonies on Mars is "nonsense"
8aRJP
TIL in 1951 Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz carried out an agrarian reform under which uncultivated portions of large land-holdings were expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. The US disliked this and the CIA engineered a coup d'etat
4meJ
TIL of bank robber McArthur Wheeler. Because lemon juice can be used as invisible ink, Wheeler (wrongly) assumed that putting it on his face would make him invisible to the bank’s security cameras. He was caught later that day.
M897
TIL The asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs was powerful enough to send Earth rocks to Mars and even Europa. As a result, if we ever find life on those worlds it may actually have originated on our own planet.