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TIL Norway stopped investing money into Walmart after determining that the company is guilty of “serious violations of fundamental ethical norms.”

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BQyy TIL That Coca-Cola deliberately designed Tab Clear to fail, in order to tarnish the public perception of Pepsi’s rival clear soda and ultimately sink both products.
8ar5X TIL that ears of corn generally have an even number of rows, which is usually 16.
oR7Nr TIL that All-American Jeep got bought in 1979 by French Renault. French patronage helped Jeep produce one of its most successful off-roaders, the XJ. Renault sold Jeep to Chrysler only 8 years later and exited the US market for good.
Ege0 TIL In 1945 Frank Sinatra cancelled a $10,000 gig and traveled to Gary, Indiana to convince white high school students striking against integration to return to school. Sinatra called it “the most shameful incident in the history of American education.”
nZdd TIL that attempts were made to create a Human-Chimpanzee hybrid through artificial insemination of female chimpanzees in 1960s China. The experiment reportedly achieved pregnancy but was cut short by the Cultural Revolution.