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TIL canned food was a luxurious status symbol during the 19th century, as it was considered a frivolous novelty

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bBJ7 TIL in the US the death penalty is, on average, 10x more expensive to taxpayers than life imprisonment.
eJK6 TIL that temp agencies make money by getting you hired and giving you a different pay rate per hour than what the company is offering. So if a company offers $25 per hour, the temp agency will take $10 an hour for their services and tell you that they will pay you $15 an hour
009j TIL IKEA Makes Billions Tax-Free Under the Guise of Operating the World’s Largest “Charity”
ADl9x TIL that 1 Billion dollars of gift cards go unused every year.
YpePx TIL about Ralph Lauren, the billionaire fashion mogul. His last name was Lifshitz but he changed it to Lauren when he was 16 because it had the word 'shit' in it and other children used to make fun of him.