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TIL the Missing Link of the human race has been found and is no longer missing

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8ewQZ TIL that Walmart tried and failed to establish itself in Germany in the early 2000s. One of the speculated reasons for its failure is that Germans found certain team-building activities and the forced greeting and smiling at customers unnerving.
YkXr TIL Ring Pops were invented as an alternative to thumb sucking.
9Y7NX TIL unlike their counterparts in the NHL, NBA and MLB, NFL referees are not full-time employees, behind hired on a contract basis, and many of them hold day jobs
Bmoy TIL. The first nuclear missile test in space “starfish prime” knocked out several allied satellites and disabled communications on Hawaii.
nWg0d TIL that lungfish are more closely related to humans than they are to most other fish