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TIL that following the death of Ayrton Senna an estimated 3 million people lined the streets of São Paulo in what is “widely accepted as the largest recorded gathering of mourners in modern times”

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nml7 TIL Barbie can’t hold down a job. Her 126th job was Computer Engineer in 2010. I went to the Mattel site and she is currently a dolphin trainer.
vbk8 TIL: “The Indian government requires retailers to source 30 percent from small suppliers”; this is one of the reasons Walmart is having difficulty expanding in India.
NXn4b TIL: In the Zhou dynasty, it is believed the ruling class had excess "de" and so needed a large number of female partners or else the "DE" turns into malevolent "gui". They have special court ladies, the "nu shi" to ensure they sleep with women in the right order and amount.
BgRpL TIL that the popular chemical brand WD-40 stands for Water Displacement-40, the 40 referring to the 40th attempt to successfully create a solution that actually worked, and it was originally meant to be specifically for aeronautics.
kJGZm TIL that South Korean artist Chun Kyung-ja spent over 30 years claiming her painting Beautiful Woman was a forgery, despite repeated government and forensic investigations declaring it authentic, sparking debates about artistic rights and gender bias in the art world.