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TIL: The FTC Conducted a large study on MLM’s (Direct Sales) and determined the median annual income of ACTIVE reps is just $240. They also show the chances of profiting are slimmer than winning on a Vegas slot machine!

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XBRk TIL a Japanese pilot who attacked a town in Oregon during WWII returned 20 years later to present his family’s 400-year-old sword as a symbol of regret. His daughter later said, if he had received a hostile reaction, he would’ve used the sword to perform a ritual suicide by disembowelment instead.
W7YQ8 TIL that when a Concorde crashed in 2000, it came within 30 feet of hitting a plane carrying the French president
1VOd TIL; bill paxton is one of the only people to have ever been killed by a terminator, predator, and ALIEN.
dDvKE TIL that in the 18th and 19th centuries, cemeteries in Britain used "cemetery guns" to prevent grave robbing. These guns were set up near graves and were designed to discharge when triggered by a tripwire, stopping "body snatchers" who stole corpses to sell to medical schools.
dWDK TIL: That no participant of the U.S. Marshal’s witness protection program who have followed the established guidelines have been harmed since it’s inception in 1971.