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TIL Walmart was involved in a $24 million dollar bribery scandal to open stores more quickly in Mexico than the law allows.

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joln TIL that some countries, such as Japan, have laws that mandate a woman be allowed to take time off (often unpaid) during their period.
rE5W TIL that the BMI(body mass index) the most widely used measurement for body weight, is wrong, and even the creator says it cannot be used to measure the fat of an individual.
AkVg TIL that Pabst Blue Ribbon is a luxury beer in China and costs 44USD per bottle.
JYr8v TIL about an engineering principle called the "Bathtub Curve". It suggests all products have 3 phases of reliability: An early high failure rate that decreases as defects are removed, a period showing intrinsic (random) failure rate, and then an increase in failures as wearout occurs.
JyWj TIL in 1854 men working in a brewery in London drank only beer which saved them from the Cholera outbreak