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TIL until 2008, Walmart Mexico was paying its employees with gift cards only redeemable at Walmart.

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NoX6 TIL That since the end of the WWII Canada has been naming its 1000’s of unnamed lakes after fallen soldiers.
En1w TIL the US Gov’t Offered $10,000 to any kid who prospected uranium w/the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab in the 50’s
e0lpL TIL that in Western Australia there is a giant abandoned American military base that is a slice of 60’s Americana. Bowling alleys, baseball fields and signs telling you to drive on the right hand side of the road.
X0war TIL the earliest known toy trains were made in the 1850s and powered by alcohol fires and real steam. They had the tendency to start house fires due to their fuel leaking and igniting when the toy fell over. Earlier models had no safety valves and would explode due to excess boiler pressure.
1mBP TIL that 46 years ago today, a NYPD Officer was shot in the face during a drug raid and the officers officers with him refused to make the call to the dispatcher indicating an officer was shot