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TIL that The Golden State Fence Company, hired to build part of the US-Mexico border wall, was fined $5M for hiring illegal immigrant workers.

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GYBg1 TIL that until 1999 in Germany, bribes were a tax-deductible business expense, and there were no penalties for bribing foreign officials. The German company Siemens used to engage in bribery in developing countries, where bribery was common, and continued to do so after criminalizing it in 1999.
4kV6g TIL That Chinese Checkers is neither a variation on checkers nor did it originate from Asia.
b9ob7 TIL of serial killer Randy Kraft, known as the "Scorecard Killer" because he kept a score card with cryptic references to his victims. (For example: a victim found impaled with a tree branch was listed on the card as "TWIGGIE") Several entries on the card have never been deciphered.
PKZw TIL that Memphis, the #2 worst city in America, has the cleanest and sweetest water in the entire world; it is so clean that it is even used to make vaccines because it requires very little purification.
LMRv TIL in 2011, two judges were convicted in a scheme that involved $2.6 million in kickbacks from owners of private detention centers in exchange for diverting over 4000 juvenile defendants to the private detention centers, often for minor crimes such as mocking a principal on Myspace and trespassing