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TIL there is still one K-Mart left in America.

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EXvP TIL when an Israeli day care began fining parents for picking up children late, the number of late pickups went up. Economists believe that parents had previously been motivated to be on time by a sense of guilt, and the guilt went away when it was replaced by a fine that most of them could afford.
ROm1 TIL: In 2012 a Bumble Bee Tuna worker was cooked in a pressure cooker along with 12,000 pounds of canned tuna
GAG74 TIL About Hyraxes: Fanged African Mammals Resembling Marmots, but which are Far More Closely Related to Elephants and Manatees!
E9bo TIL All Ben & Jerry’s Employees get to take home 3 free pints of ice cream every single day!
v1oMR TIL about the Montreal experiments at McGill University (1957-1964) by psychiatrist Donald Cameron and funded by the CIA. The patients, mainly diagnosed with depression & schizophrenia, expected positive changes but instead suffered severely under conditions not in accordance with human rights.