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TIL Walmart Loses $3 Billion a Year to Theft

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4X4ZX TIL in 2013 Disney tried to trademark the phrase, “Día de Los Muertos,” a Mexican holiday.
DQeyP TIL Daylight saving time was first proposed in 1895 by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealand postal worker and amateur entomologist. Hudson thought that the extra daylight during the warmer months would give him more time to hunt insects after work
jNlkN TIL Michael Jackson's Billie Jean was the original 'Stan'. There was no actual Billie Jean - it was a term given to represent crazy groupie women who hooked up with Michael's brothers then claimed their children was his.
9wpwm TIL that Sesame Street was designed to build up the self-worth of black children through the presentation of positive black images. It purposefully presented an integrated, harmonious community to challenge the marginalization of African-Americans routinely seen on elsewhere in society
LkLPQ TIL that Ivory Coast built a church copied from the St. Peter's Basilica to surpass it as the highest church in the world. Upon completion the pope only agreed to consecrate it, if the overall height was lower than the Vatican Basilica and if there would be built a hospital next to it.