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TIL Aflac, An American ‘insurance company’ has been rated as one of the most ethical companies for seven straight years.

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KYj19 TIL that Victor Gruen who designed the first mall in the US, in later years hated what he created and even disowned it
D18lJ TIL about the "Third Defenestration of Prague". In 1618 three Catholic officials were thrown out of the window of Prague Castle by an angry mob of Protestants. This led to The Thirty Years' War - the deadliest war in European history.
y9N8 TIL that beyond the whole ‘left brain / right brain’ thing and 'the subconscious,’ humans appear to literally have TWO 'competing’ brains in one – one that can speak and one that can’t.
QNEgM TIL: That following the capture of 81 German soldiers as prisoners of war, Germans soldiers attempted/largely succeeded in massacring an entire village. Only 13 out of nearly 700 men survived. The women survived thanks to 1 sympathetic soldier who freed them.
KVDa TIL that a pregnant Indian woman swam nearly 1 kilometer across a swollen river to give birth in a hospital instead of her home