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TIL that the retailer Target has a “walk of shame” policy intended to cause emotional distress to employees accused of wrongdoing, by having them publicly arrested and paraded through the store in handcuffs.

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78G1Z TIL that the French-controlled Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean was named so to pay homage to the meeting of the fédérés of Marseilles and the Paris National Guards. The word réunion in French means meeting rather than reunion.
9wvvp TIL that the controller which was included with the Xbox game "Steel Battalion" features two full-sized joysticks, three foot-pedals, a dial, a lever, multiple lights, forty buttons, and is three feet long.
Lkpmm TIL about the Florida fairy shrimp, which was discovered in 1952 to be a unique species of fairy shrimp specific to a single pond in Gainesville, Florida. When researchers returned to that pond in 2011, they realized it had been filled in for development, thereby causing the species to go extinct.
1eMO TIL Human babies are 80% water at birth, a slightly higher water content than bananas and slightly less than fresh potatoes.
4XKK5 TIL 2,000 year old seeds were discovered inside an ancient jar in Israel 1963. They were planted in 2005 and a tree extinct for 1,800 years sprouted from the ground.