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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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1bXO TIL that after the iconic dance scene in Pulp Fiction, you see Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace holding a trophy. It’s assumed they won the contest, but later in the film, a barely audible advert states the trophy had, in fact been stolen.
oLpK TIL during the LA riots a group of Korean American business owners fought against looters and rioters with shotguns and semi-automatic weapons from the rooftops of their business.
v15n8 TIL surgeons at a Dental College in India removed a "well-defined bag-like mass" from the jaw of a 7-year-old boy. It weighed 7 ounces and contained 526 teeth. It took a medical team five hours to meticulously search through and count all of them.
kwv1 TIL there was a street artist in Brazil, that painted skulls in Sao Paolo tunnels with stencils and a pressure washer, forcing the city to clean the tunnels to remove the artwork.
9wpeG TIL The term "Basket Case" comes from quadriplegic WWI soldiers who had to be carried around in a basket