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TIL that WalMart and McDonalds are the 3rd and 4th largest employers in the world; only the armies of the United States and China employ more people.

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GY47j TIL Till Lindemann, lead singer of Rammstein, wanted a light put in his mouth for visual effects. His bandmate suggested he use a flesh colored wire and run it into his mouth from the outside. Lindemann refused, opting to have a surgical incision in his left cheek to directly feed it into his mouth
GYWZN TIL ELO's first album "The Electric Light Orchestra" has a different name in the US. The american record company tried to call and confirm the name of the album. When they failed to reach anyone on the phone, they wrote down "No Answer", which someone misconstrued as the name of the album.
R7gy9 TIL In 1950, myxoma virus (a type of pox virus) was deliberately released into the rabbit population in Australia as a means of population control, causing the death of over 500 million rabbits
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awNG9 TIL in 1596, Abraham Ortelius, recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, noticed the shapes of continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean (most notably, Africa and South America) seem to fit together. He was the first to theorize the Continental Drift.