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TIL Norway stopped investing money into Walmart after determining that the company is guilty of “serious violations of fundamental ethical norms.”

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kADe TIL A Croatian woman died in her apartment of natural causes. No one reported her missing and she was only discovered after burglars broke into her flat – 35 years later – and found her mummified body.
KOV0B TIL in 2000, Sonny Sandoval, lead singer of Nu Metal group POD, was responsible for the increased popularity of the name “Nevaeh” which is “Heaven” spelled backwards.
7mr7 TIL a Florida highschooler was suspended for wrestling a gun away from another student, because he was involved in an “incident with a weapon”
5VP7p TIL that the reason grape flavors often taste so artificial is because they are derived from methyl anthranilate, a compound found in Concord grapes and coal byproducts.
Bg7lL TIL Labi Siffre denied Dr Dre the rights to use his sample on Eminem's "My Name Is" until homophobic and sexist lyrics were removed. In an interview, he said "Dissing the victims of bigotry – women as bitches, homosexuals as faggots – is lazy writing. Diss the bigots not their victims."