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TIL that around 81% of small businesses in the US have zero employees.

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dD89d TIL the color Brown is really the color Orange - but darker.
GYyL4 TIL That, during the War of the Currents, Thomas Edison became so desperate to convince people that Tesla's current was more harmful than his own, that he began paying young boys 25 cents per stray dog they brought him, so he could publicly electrocute them with Tesla's current to prove his point.
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