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TIL that Walmart makes over $13 billion in sales from food stamps, but because of its employees’ low wages, also likely has the most employees currently receiving food stamps.

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adwJ TIL Ralph Nader sued General Motors for harassment in 1970 after GM attempted to blackmail him to suppress his outspoken criticism of automobile safety. He won and used the $425m judgement to found an organization which was instrumental in the creation of OSHA and the Freedom of Information Act.
vPavL TIL that MLB Hall of Famer Gary Carter invented the “f-bomb” term in a 1988 Newsday story. That term would later be published in the Webster dictionary in 2012 crediting Carter for its first recorded use.
nKd9 TIL Half Price Books was founded by two men who pooled 2,000 of their own books as the store’s first merchandise.
aw550 TIL "Plum Blossom Music" is the most widely spread classic Chinese instrumental music and was originally played on the flute by Huan Yin, the famous general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420). The music score was first recorded in Mysterious Music Scores compiled in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
ROOa TIL despite actually being a boxing slang, there is a widespread notion that the phrase ‘Saved by the bell’ originated as an expression that relates to people being buried alive having a bell that was attached to the coffin, thus ringing it and be saved.