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TIL there is a furniture company in Houston that serves free breakfast, lunch, and dinner to their employees. Employees' children also have access to a pre-school and a high school plus a trade school for themselves, all free and on the premise.

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6EDPm TIL more than half the US states have laws requiring employers to give people time off to vote. Some states even require the employer to pay your wages while you're voting!
8JAK TIL in 1943, the LAPD allowed white servicemen on break from war to beat, strip, and urinate on Latino boys aged from as young as 11 in order to let out their frustrations at the “hoodlum” culture cultivating in LA.
9Yy7 TIL a lone Tour De France rider rode clean and spoke out against doping, but was shunned by Lance Armstrong and the rest of the peloton.
Zp9oa TIL an estimated 10% of the population of Seychelles is addicted to heroin
VVeD TIL two men disappeared in the space of three months, they were both stopped by the same officer and he left them at a Circle K. Neither man has ever been found.