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TIL the businessman who founded Adidas the German sportswear company was a member of the Nazi party

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LlBQ TIL Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House in Kaifeng, China is considered the world’s oldest operating restaurant, first opening in 1153 AD during the Jing Dynasty.
GnJ7 TIL In 1933 Nazis gave 60,000 Zionist Jews $100,000,000 dollars (worth $1.6 billion in 2009) and helped them settle in Palestine.
VMvYD TIL In 1984, OSHA fined a company $640, after a rocket motor fell on an employee and crushed him against the securing beams.
e0bE TIL only humans have pubic hair
K9QG TIL a Nobel prize-winning psychologist thinks bankers have no actual skills, it’s just luck: ‘you’d do just as well if you entrusted your financial decisions to a monkey throwing darts at a board.’