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TIL the USA is one of seven countries that have not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

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eRD4 TIL that CERN invented HTML.
1aEd TIL In 1945 Frank Sinatra cancelled a $10,000 gig and traveled to Gary, Indiana to convince white high school students striking against integration to return to school. Sinatra called it “the most shameful incident in the history of American education.”
000N TIL of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, who was so incredibly introverted that none of his hundreds of employees were even allowed to acknowledge him. He once fired a worker for raising his hat at him.
baNQ TIL that New England grocer Market Basket doesn’t have self-checkout lanes because CEO Arthur T. Demoulas stated that he wanted “a human being waiting on a human being.”
wLp6J TIL that basketball legend Magic Johnson signed a 25 year contract with the Los Angeles Lakers for $1 Million a year. It would put him on contract with the Lakers from 1984-2009.